Cassette Decks, anyone still use them

[Salar]

I still sometimes play cassettes on a Technics dbx deck .

The quality can vary a lot, but sometimes you can find a good one, like some of the old Springsteen stuff.

Anyone else still play cassettes in this digital download world.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I've got a radio cassette in the car and a cassette deck up in the loft. TBH the sound quality is awful compared to modern digital stuff.

 

[Drago]

I used a Nakamichi until fairly recently for amateur radio purposes, but earlier this year I've succumbed to digital. Still have the deck though.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Cassettes are junk.

 

[raleighnut]

Yep, still using one here. One of the last ones made, a Yamaha.

Useful feature is the 'Playback Trim' rotary knob which alters the tape 'Bias' so increases/decreases the 'top end' so I can still listen to tapes recorded nigh on 40yrs ago, still sounds good especially those old Maxell UD XL11 tapes that I was paying nearly £3 each for in the mid 80s.

 

[swee'pea99]

Yup. A Nad. Still occasionally put on an old compilation, just for the nostalgia. Some of the better tapes (TDK SA, eg) sound ok, tho' nothing like as good as vinyl or CD.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

If you're using cassettes don't forget this...

 

[NorthernDave]

Very occasionally use an old Sony that I've had since the early 90's.

I've still got a load of cassette in an attaché case too.

 

[midlife]

Very occasionally use an old Sony that I've had since the early 90's.

I've still got a load of cassette in an attaché case too.

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That looks just like mine !

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

MiL has just bought a new cassette player. Sound quality won't matter for her as she is as deaf as a post. I feel for the neighbours tho'.

 

[NorthernDave]

That looks just like mine !

Back in the day I used to have something very like this to store my tapes in the Opel Kadett...

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 4994388, member: 259"]We

We still have a working decent NAD deck and some SA tapes of concerts and stuff that you'd never find anywhere else. I keep meaning to digitise them but never get round to it. I checked eBay and gwo ones sometimes make surprising money. I've no idea who's buying them though![/QUOTE]
Big market for 'Retro HiFi' these days,

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...ohifi.co.uk/&usg=AOvVaw1Ou3HAJMWSn5D4UQuzFSVD

 

[Crackle]

[QUOTE 4994391, member: 259"]Ooh, it just did the autolink thing [/QUOTE]
Thank Evans for that, all the more Wiggle room for Shaun you Bike Tart

 

[Crackle]

Waits......

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 4994388, member: 259"]We still have a working decent NAD deck and some SA tapes of concerts and stuff that you'd never find anywhere else. I keep meaning to digitise them but never get round to it. I checked eBay and gwo ones sometimes make surprising money. I've no idea who's buying them though![/QUOTE]

I've just remembered from the depths that stall in the Kensington Market, that guy who used to sell bootleg tapes of gigs, bought a few off him. Long time ago though, time and jazz cigarettes have probably caught up with him by now. God they were shite but then it was tapes.