Cassettes and cassette players

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Just bought an old B&O system from a friend. It was mainly for the turntable so that I can play all my old vinyl. It has a casseette tape player (fully serviced). It's fantastic... picked out a few old cassesttes from storage ... mix tapes, The Chameleons' album, Grace Jones ... it's fantastic. The joy of playing mix tapes that you put together decades ago is immense.
Mrs 259 then piped up "cassettes are on the way back in".

Really???
Anyone else?
 
I had two albums on cassette. Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em by MC Hammer and Roachford by Roachford. The good thing about cassettes is if the album is ***** you can tape over it. Both of my cassette albums are intact.

It is however a ***** format. The true music connoisseur listens to their music on minidisc.
 
Your wife may be correct (aren't they always?) as I read somewhere that they were the next thing. I've not seen any in the shops here in France, but we are not always up with 'lifestyle fashions'.

EDIT I used to have loads for use in the car many moons ago, but the cassette player used to eat them. That was the reason why at one time you'd find loads of cassette tape in roadside hedges.
 
Yes they are 'in' with the hipsters, they obviously haven't found out yet about how hissy they sound and how they inevitably get chewed up by the machine playing them
 
Must admit, currently playing "Forest Fire" by Lloyd Cole. It has been in the cold damp garage for about 8 years. It sounds remarkably good. No hiss.
 
I was tidying up the other day and found my Divine Madness cassette and was wondering how I could play it.
 
red_harrington said:
Yes they are 'in' with the hipsters, they obviously haven't found out yet about how hissy they sound and how they inevitably get chewed up by the machine playing them
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Yeah, I went to the independent record companies' fair at King's Cross just before Christmas and cassettes were all over the place. They'll be on to summat different now like mini-discs or wax cylinders.
 
My son recorded put a few cassettes together, along with LP's

I still have the 2nd leg of our semi final zenith data systems win over Villa on 2 seperate cassettes 👍⚽
 
My Mrs threw out a bit of stuff in from the loft, my Pioneer tape deck sadly. She hoyed a load of old tapes mainly mixed copied songs for the car but the tapes I used weighed a bit and were pricey when I bought them. Aluminium they were, always thought they made a quality difference but they probably diidnt

Used to enjoy making tapes for the car, especially one you did years ago and forgot was on it and guessed what was next....dear me I`m boring myself
 

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I still have a cassette player... the sort with a couple of big speakers built in. Used to have a non PC name! I have loads of cassettes too. Albums and cassette singles.

The trouble is, I also have Spotify, and a decent bluetooth speaker... so it kind of never makes sense to play them. Perhaps I will do tomorrow, just to see if it all still works.
 
For my 50th birthday (10 years ago!) Mrs GOG bought me a cassette player that digitised the tapes so I put most of them onto CD. I recently splashed out on a new system and now use it to play the remaining tapes - anyone remember the NME C81 and subsequent issues? I've got them all and they still sound great.
 
yep, sold loads of them in my record shop. The vintage ones - Black Sabbath , Zep, Floyd sell fro £18+ ---- most only worth 50p or so.. Still have a cassette deck ... the variable quality of Cassettes lets the medium down tho,
 
Used to love doing a mix tape for the car. My old Cortina had a tape player that could skip songs and auto-reverse so it kept playing! The speakers were loose on the back shelf and would slide from side to side during "spirited" cornering. Happy days.

Never bought original music on cassette always bought vinyl and taped it to listen in the car hence the popularity of the C90 which would hold two full albums. Sometimes, irritatingly, an album would be too long and the last track wouldn't fit. Grrrrr. Then came the C99/100, yay!
 
Zoophonic said:
And that last sentence AMD will ensure that, unlike vinyl, cassettes will never make a comeback.
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yes, the hiss or the loss of top always an issue - some sound clear as a bell - pot luck when buying..... when you find a good quality tape the listen can be very very pleasurable - no crackle as in vinyl and a smoothness, Played loads in my shop before putting out for sale.... I would say 30% of the used tapes were binned through slow play (tape catching) or just very dull , no top sound - prob through deterioration or played on a damaged tape head.
 
borolad259 said:
Just bought an old B&O system from a friend. It was mainly for the turntable so that I can play all my old vinyl. It has a casseette tape player (fully serviced). It's fantastic... picked out a few old cassesttes from storage ... mix tapes, The Chameleons' album, Grace Jones ... it's fantastic. The joy of playing mix tapes that you put together decades ago is immense.
Mrs 259 then piped up "cassettes are on the way back in".

Really???
Anyone else?
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Sat in front of PC to type this and there must be 30ish indie compilations on the shelf behind me. From late 80s to 2000ish. Rarely play them but always meant to convert them to CD. Still have two Cassette players in my hi-fi system.
I used to make umpteen tapes for my late wife over the thirty plus years we were together. Spent nearly a year redoing about 50 plus tapes as CDS. Cant bring myself to play them yet but I will one day.
 
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