brachunky
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Cassette tape revival?brachunky
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There was a good piece on 5 Live this week about how cassettes are gaining popularity again just like vinyl. Got me running about in the loft for my old box of tapes but cant find it yet! Seeing as my 'ol LS400 hasn't got any form of aux socket, I thought maybe doing a few "mixed tapes" might be fun Who else still listens to the 'ol tape?
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Last Edit: Nov 9, 2017 19:03:48 GMT by brachunky
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Hipsters only I'm betting .
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blaine
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It's funny the Cavalier I have just bought now has a CD autochanger in with the tape player head unit. I was wondering if I had any of my old tapes lying around still
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Del
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I do! Had the Granada and could never get the CD player to work, and now I've got the Citroen camper, which is even older!
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i've a case full of tapes, biggest problem is they degrade after time. my "now 3" music compilation(yes new from when it was released in 1984 ish) just fell to bits.
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It's funny the Cavalier I have just bought now has a CD autochanger in with the tape player head unit. I was wondering if I had any of my old tapes lying around sti
same here except the car has all the uits filled with cassettes
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njw
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i've a case full of tapes, biggest problem is they degrade after time. my "now 3" music compilation(yes new from when it was released in 1984 ish) just fell to bits. A decent tape though on a good deck will sound very good. Infinitely better than mp3's played through an aux jack!
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8 track is the kiddy... kerr-chunk!!!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
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cjhillman
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I was just about to (and may still) start an 8 track thread as i was thinking of getting one for the spitfire but have no experience of using these in a car. I still use cassettes in my 1985 Escort and the 1995 Escort i had before that. always been cassettes when i was growing up and i really like them in cars. I've gone a bit overkill right now having a Ford head unit into a 300 watt amp to parcel shelf speakers. makes 1985 sound real good! I'm a music fanatic and will never say its better than a CD player but, it kinda feels like this car should have a tape deck in it and i can make a bunch of mix tapes easy for no moeny at all.
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Rich
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Cassette tape revival?Rich
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I only have a cassette and FM/AM in the BMW. I did add an FM modulator but that's something only the wife uses for driving home to see the family, otherwise I still make and use tapes.
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Dez
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Cassette tape revival?Dez
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No one else got one of these? Mines lived in various cars over the years, they're great. Mostly cos they make phone mp3s sound like they're off of the '80s. Best of both worlds!
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brachunky
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Cassette tape revival?brachunky
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i've a case full of tapes, biggest problem is they degrade after time. my "now 3" music compilation(yes new from when it was released in 1984 ish) just fell to bits. A decent tape though on a good deck will sound very good. Infinitely better than mp3's played through an aux jack! Thats what I'm hoping! The Lexus has a great factory audio setup so nice fresh tapes could sound pretty good
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I have a few tapes, although when the Pistonpoppets were smaller I came home one night to find the smallest one and her friend stood in a huge pile of brown spaghetti made from the best part of 300 tapes!! I was maybe able to rewind 3 or 4 of those tapes as it was all just a big tangled mess! But I still have a carry case of tapes that gets put into every car I buy with a cassette player, and if I see any when i'm out and about I'll often buy them. Last time I looked Poundland still sold blank C90s, but that was a couple of months back now.
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stu67
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Nov 10, 2017 10:20:52 GMT
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I've got a factory fitted CD and tape player in my rover 75, I've never used the CD but the tape player gets used a lot. My 25 year old son is fascinated by my collection of 80's Funk, all on tape. So much so he's just bought a second hand tape player for his flat and all the tapes are gradually disappearing rendering the one in the Rover of less use!
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Nov 10, 2017 10:37:16 GMT
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Look at these posh boys with their fancy tape players. The Sunny has a radio, Medium Wave and Long Wave only ... test match special all summer long for me.
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Nov 10, 2017 13:11:15 GMT
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If your old tapes are dying. and you have a decent cassette recorder, you can always re-record a version by finding the tracks in a digital format of choice and then record it all to a new tape - they're getting rarer but your equivalent of the ubiquitous TDK D90 tapes can still be got pretty cheap if you look hard enough - especially at charity shops or car-boot sales. Or even free on Freegle/Freecycle etc as people are always clearing out their lofts and giving away old tapes now they're all Spotified-up. Pro tip to the young'uns - commercial tapes can be re-recorded onto just the same as blanks - just cover up the little notches on the top of the tape and it overides the copy-protection. In't analogue great? The best thing you can do if you have a newish stereo with a front loading USB slot is to buy a load of old USB flash drives off the echobay, then make 'tapes' of music files that you keep in the car. Small drives (256mb) keep the collections of mp3s small so you can effectively have that feeling of putting a favourite 'tape' on - compilations. albums, greatest hits, 'my back lane racing tape', or whatever but you are within a walled garden and not just putting on a mammoth unfilitered collection on shuffle. We did that with our t25 camper (rip) I had a bunch of period-correct 1982 'tape' drives, labelled with a sharpie and kept in the glovebox. I think in a period car it's cool to have period-correct music same as the age of the car to complete the vibe when cruising. Another thing I did which was awesome was the lucky find of a load of old jingles and adverts from my old local independent radio station (Radio Tees / TFM in the north east) on the web. With a bigger 8Gb flash drive I could fit about a days worth of 1982 pop on it, along with all the jingles, station idents and adverts. When played on shuffle made a pretty good stab at sounding like the actual radio, somehow locked in time
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brachunky
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Cassette tape revival?brachunky
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Nov 10, 2017 16:46:26 GMT
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No one else got one of these? Mines lived in various cars over the years, they're great. Mostly cos they make phone mp3s sound like they're off of the '80s. Best of both worlds! These are nifty little gadgets but I have never found one which manages any decent quality sound!
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Nov 10, 2017 17:03:01 GMT
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they're never going to be that great as it's basically hacking the tape head - v.easy to overload it with too much gain from the source. I had one of these Sony CPA-9C ones back in the day - before the flurry of knock-offs and it was - on the whole - pretty decent
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ian65
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Nov 10, 2017 17:07:07 GMT
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A few months ago I put a Pioneer KEH-M8300 radio cassette into my GTI and although I mostly use the radio and cd multichanger, I did think of getting some cassettes.... anyone seen the cost of blanks these days... bloody hell, expensive or what?
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Nov 10, 2017 17:22:39 GMT
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A well recorded good quality tape in a good quality tape player can sound great, ive got a really nice tape player in the loft that never gets used since i converted all my tapes to minidisc and chucked the tapes away. Now they're on minidisc they sound even better! I can understand why vinyl has had a revival, simply the best possable sound quality and when looked after, will last for far longer than any other format, and the method with which it is played is easily made, but all the time ive got my music on minidisc and cd, i wont need tapes.
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