Cassette

chopper wrote: I found an old cassette deck and a bunch of tapes in the loft last week. The deck is going to the dump along with all but 2 of the cassettes, these will be transferred to MP3 along with a load of recordings that I made on a 4-track Fostex X15 back in the 80s.

I have a lot of cassettes, and still buy them when I see them cheap. It helps that I have a tape-to-mp3 converter. 

I still have all my cassettes.....Had an Akai deck and it finally kicked the bucket about 8yrs ago....Been thinking of getting another deck but not too interested.

I also have a number of cassettes that haven't been played much in recent years.  Many have been replaced by CDs or MP3s.  I have also converted a number of them to MP3s.  I still have a cassette player in my car, as well as a walkman, a couple of boomboxes and a cassette player on my stereo system.  Most of mine are also 80's heavy metal and hair/glam metal bands.

TeleStrat wrote: I have a boom box that I use when I'm working on a project in the garage or the back yard. As you know, these units have a CD player on top and a cassette player in the front. I have a box full of cassettes from my pre CD days that are mostly heavy metal and hair/glam bands. I will occasionally throw in Skid Row, Testament, Metallica, Lynch Mob or Mr. Big since I did not repurchase these on CD.

Does the box ever suffer from weather damage if it's in the garage by any chance? I have a very similar system but I rarely bring it outside. I have a barn where I keep things and I pulled  a radio out of there a while back and it refuses to play cassettes. I learned the hard way when I found out that it didn't enjoy Billy Joel too much and it ripped it completely apart. I almost put in another cassette (my first cassette, Face Dances by The Who) but I decided against it. 

I still have a cassette deck on my hi-fi chain in Bruussels, and I still have somewhere a walkmùan,...

I still have three wooden wine crates filled with my old Maxrll XL-IIS tapes... but lest time I really gave them a spin was when I bought that used Citroen Xantia car that still had a cassette deck in it some 10 years ago... Waited two or three months to replace the old cassette deck with a CD deck ...

Interesting nostalgia experience, but musically, it didn't change much since what I listened to back then (from 81 until 93) was roughly correspon,ding to what I listened before and still represent 85% of what I listened 10 years ago.





Edited by Sean Trane - November 12 2015 at 00:52

I have an old Walkman connected to the sound card's input jack of an old desktop computer that's in my music room (aka as my youngest kid's bedroom now that he's in college). I tossed several hundred cassettes four years ago when we moved from South Dakota to Pennsylvania but still have a small number that were never reissued on CD which I've ripped to mp3s.

Come to think of it I haven't even used that Walkman in at least three years so never mind...

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