restorer-john
Grand Contributor
If Fosi could make a basic deck like this one, with good playback heads, it would probably fulfill what most of the current market needs.
The entire premise is nothing more than clickbait from Fosi.
People really have no comprehension of the development and manufacturing costs for high quality miniaturised cassette deck mechanisms and heads.
They would burn their entire R&D budget for the next decade before they got past the front panel and eject mechanism, letalone the head block, transport mechanism and drive components. It took the resources of the world's biggest manufacturers, 30 years to get cassette decks to a point where they surpassed all the characteristics of vinyl. Budgets in the many millions from each. Entire teams of the best engineers in the world. All that ended rapidly once CD took over. By 2000, there wasn't a cassette deck worth buying. Even by the mid 90s, cassette decks were a shadow of themselves from just 5 years before.
The technology is long gone, obsolete and cannot be replicated for what is basically a small market whim.