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TWO new walkman style cassette players now shown at CES 2024!
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I've had 2 700's recently sold but I kept my 500 so I can make tapes to keep my '72 car period correct with a JVC player/radio. An old stash of TDK tapes also, the best of all of them.
Me too and I bought it new in the summer of '85!
It works, but could use an overhaul.
Chris
I've been predicting (jokingly) the return of Color Organs for years but so far I've been mostly wrong.
I just gave a nice old Pioneer veneer-clad cassette player/recorder to a shop that re-did the woofers on my garage Advents.
Not that I am really interested in acquiring one, you know? I've just been doing research . Yeah, that's it.
Research.
all the best,
mrh
Edits: 01/12/24
Conversation pit! Desert Gold or Avocado shag carpet, with matching kitchen appliances!
Hide the bong and the Playboys! Mom's coming to visit!
The problem with cassette tape right now is the lack of good current-production premium media...... New old stock metal formulation (Type IV) tapes on eBay can go for over $10 a pop......
The other issue with cassettes is that the technology for more robust and reliable cassette transport mechanisms has not come forth..... (This was especially the case with Sony Walkman and other portable players.... I do not know anybody who currently has one in good working order... ) I've always hoped that someday, there would be both tapes and decks that became reliable to where making cassette recordings became an enjoyable and viable long-term investment, without worry for mangling tapes or excessive maintenance.
The problem with cassettes is that they just don't hold up over time. I have several hundred that I mostly made from my records and FM radio broadcasts from the 1970s through the 1990s. As I have been digitizing my LPs, I have attempted to do this with some of my cassettes, especially from performances that were from live events. I've been somewhat successful with a few. But, the amount of audio drop-offs is very distracting while listening.
Pablo14
From your two-word description, that sounds more like a transport problem. Although, if it's a "fade out, fade in" kind of thing, it could be that the tape needs to be re-packed before you play it. Try a fast wind on one which you don't really care about (in case it gets destroyed), then play it.
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We are inclusive and diverse, but dissent will not be tolerated.
I tried all those things, cleaned the heads, etc. My player is quite old, but seems to be functioning OK. I always used the highest quality tapes.
Maybe I need a newer unit. I have a lot of really good music on cassette that I would love to preserve in a digital format.
Pablo14
Just need an ADC (doesn't have to be expensive) and a PC running free software like Audacity for the digital capture in 96/24 or 44/16.
If a good sounding machine is reasonably inexpensive ( <$500), who cares if it only lasts 3000 hours (assuming the mechanism doesn't trash the tapes)?
Just buy a new player every 5 years at that price (probably with electronic and/or mechanical improvements)
if not he must be peeing his pants
Hmmmm....time to put the Pioneer CTF-750 and CTF-1050 back in service. Maybe I could make a stack on the same rack as the Pioneer RT 909 reel to reel.
Do you use your 909 regularly? Done any work on it?
I have two although one was damaged in shipping.
I have done the tape roller and drive belt relacements on one of mine, that is all. But I don't use it regularly mostly due to space issues.
In theory I know how to do it, and I even have silicone of the proper density, but I've been chicken - for years - to actually do it.I hate working on the mechanics of tape decks (and also old-school record changers)! :( There is so much potential energy stored up inside those contraptions in the form of springs, spring clips, etc., and so many itty-bitty yet mission-critical parts inside of them that, invariably, some small but important thing sproings out of an assembly in the midst of disassembly* with enough kinetic energy/velocity as to either achieve escape velocity from earth's gravitational pull and/or to create a small local black hole and disappear over the event horizon thereof.
Maybe this just happens to me.
:(
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* This not even being the rapid unscheduled kind frequently employed by SpaceX. ;)
all the best,
mrh
Edits: 01/12/24
I do not. It has to be refurbished. I will get to it sometime in the near future.
Machina Dynamica, no doubt.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
...I should have kept my cassette briefcases?
I don't miss it
I'm with you. :)
Cassettes and 8-tracks were short lived for me. I didn't collect many commercially recorded albums but made a few 'mix tapes' along the way. CD's really took over my collection.
fine for mobile use, but I never found a commercial cassette as good sounding as vinyl. I got my first cassette player as a kid. It was a Norelco Carrycorder 150:
If you recall, the 8 track was invented by Bill Lear of Learjet fame for use in aircraft. My parents had one and I purchased some tapes. I have distinct memory of when the "ka-chunk" of when head changes occurred mid-track on a Santana album. :)
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Ritchie Rich.
Was the best player $50 could buy! ;)
Ah yes. That "ka-chunk" sound. I wonder if it was even noticeable in a loud jet. I actually had an 8-Track player in my bedroom as a kid. It was wired to 12V and a couple speakers. I ran that for a short while before I got my 'real' stereo.
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