OK I decided to get back into cassette tapes this year, I bought a £20 deck from cash converters and was quite impressed at how an old techno tape sounded on it so made me think hmmm....nostalgia....
So I spent a bit more and bought an old Nakamichi BX-100E (two header) tape player and basically WOW. They actually sound incredible, I always remembered tapes sounding rubbish but this comes very close to CD and a lot warmer
Only thing I am struggling with is the tapes themselves. I bought about 100 tapes (yeah I know) and probably 20% of them didn't work. A lot have mould on the side of the spools leave deposits over the heads and are unplayable, probably the same amount stick and the spools won't turn, and the rest have clearly been chewed up by a crappy walkman or something because you can see lines running down the tape itself.
Is it just me or are tapes just impossible to in 2020? Or could it be a problem with the Nakamichi deck itself? I've just bought 3 copies of the same album and none of them worked, and all had slightly different faults
I know its probably a strange format to use in 2020 but I grew up with it and the 80s/90s stuff I used to listen to back then has a very distinctive sound on tape and I really like it. Anyone else tried using these recently?
Cheers
So I spent a bit more and bought an old Nakamichi BX-100E (two header) tape player and basically WOW. They actually sound incredible, I always remembered tapes sounding rubbish but this comes very close to CD and a lot warmer
Only thing I am struggling with is the tapes themselves. I bought about 100 tapes (yeah I know) and probably 20% of them didn't work. A lot have mould on the side of the spools leave deposits over the heads and are unplayable, probably the same amount stick and the spools won't turn, and the rest have clearly been chewed up by a crappy walkman or something because you can see lines running down the tape itself.
Is it just me or are tapes just impossible to in 2020? Or could it be a problem with the Nakamichi deck itself? I've just bought 3 copies of the same album and none of them worked, and all had slightly different faults
I know its probably a strange format to use in 2020 but I grew up with it and the 80s/90s stuff I used to listen to back then has a very distinctive sound on tape and I really like it. Anyone else tried using these recently?
Cheers