Cassette

I still have an old Onkyo cassette deck but when I play the cassettes they sound very muddy.....so not sure if the highs have dropped off over time on the actual tape or if the heads on the deck have gone bad.

^^ Did you try cleaning the heads?

Meltdowner wrote: ^^ Did you try cleaning the heads?

dr wu23 wrote: Meltdowner wrote: ^^ Did you try cleaning the heads?   Yes..several times with a tape cassette head cleaner and with a liquid wipe system....didn't seem to help.

aglasshouse wrote: Hey guys!  So...there's a vinyl thread...and I don't know if there's a counterpart for those little rectangular tape-y things.  I find them quite interesting and I happen to own a few. Of course, they aren't as majestic as vinyl, but... ..I mean they're easy to play and stuff... ..and there's these... Anyway! A hit or miss discussion has been started and I am the creator. Go semi-all out!

no!!!!  It is too late but what have you done. We have enough of the vinyl hipsters.. that is just what we need to encourage... a  bunch of millennial cassette loving hipsters. As if the racist right wing nuts weren't bad enough. Yes we had it best in the 80's, but it was the women.. not the modes of music. Revel in your times.. yeah your women look like sh*t and fake and plastic.. but man alive.  You will never have to repair a f**ked up cassette tape or have to wait to hear the song you want to hear because you have to hit rewind.

micky wrote: aglasshouse wrote: Hey guys!  So...there's a vinyl thread...and I don't know if there's a counterpart for those little rectangular tape-y things.  I find them quite interesting and I happen to own a few. Of course, they aren't as majestic as vinyl, but... ..I mean they're easy to play and stuff... ..and there's these... Anyway! A hit or miss discussion has been started and I am the creator. Go semi-all out! no!!!!  It is too late but what have you done. We have enough of the vinyl hipsters.. that is just what we need to encourage... a  bunch of millennial cassette loving hipsters. As if the racist right wing nuts weren't bad enough. Yes we had it best in the 80's, but it was the women.. not the modes of music. Revel in your times.. yeah your women look like sh*t and fake and plastic.. but man alive.  You will never have to repair a f**ked up cassette tape or have to wait to hear the song you want to hear because you have to hit rewind.

Catcher10 wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Meltdowner wrote: ^^ Did you try cleaning the heads?   Yes..several times with a tape cassette head cleaner and with a liquid wipe system....didn't seem to help.   Depending on age of the deck and usage, only other possibility could be heads are magnetized, which can cause drop outs and over all dull sounds, especially in the highs. You can get a tape head demagnetizer pretty cheap on flea-bay....I still have a hand held one from Rat Shack that works very well. It is very, very important that you follow the directions on head demag or you will defeat the purpose. When you clean the heads use Q-tips and 91% or better IPA, never use Rubbing Alcohol as that contains a lot of water and well, water and metal are not good together .