Anyone using cassettes?

[Al ears]

Summer sale here:-

uDiscover Music Store

 

[idc]

I still used cassettes until not that long ago, as my car still had a cassette player. It was just some rubbish ones to keep the cassette working. I mostly listened to the radio.

 

[nopiano]

Wow, I’d not appreciated that musicassettes were so popular again!

 

[Al ears]

Wow, I’d not appreciated that musicassettes were so popular again!

I still have some of my self-recorded ones from my days when I recorded live pub rock / Blues bands even though I no.longer own anything to play them on..... Sad or what?

 

[nopiano]

I still have some of my self-recorded ones from my days when I recorded live pub rock / Blues bands even though I no.longer own anything to play them on..... Sad or what?

It’s hard to chuck them out. I’ve dozens carefully taped from Radio 3 FM over the years. The Nakamichi needs a service but I think I’ve found someone who knows their stuff.

 

[Al ears]

It’s hard to chuck them out. I’ve dozens carefully taped from Radio 3 FM over the years. The Nakamichi needs a service but I think I’ve found someone who knows their stuff.

Excellent news.
I sold my Professional Walkman a while back for more than I paid for it (or rather what my now Wife paid for it as it was a birthday present) probably the only bit of HiFi gear I have sold at a profit..... Perhaps I should have invested in more of them.

 

[abacus]

It’s hard to chuck them out. I’ve dozens carefully taped from Radio 3 FM over the years. The Nakamichi needs a service but I think I’ve found someone who knows their stuff.

Not the Dragon is it.

Bill

 

[Edbostan]

I am surprised cassettes are offered along with vinyl and cds on new releases. There must be demand for them but I have nothing to play them on now so who does?

 

[Edbostan]

I am surprised cassettes are offered along with vinyl and cds on new releases. There must be demand for them but I have nothing to play them on now so who does?

There were better compact formats which died, eg R-Dat and mini disc offering
better sound quality.

 

[Al ears]

I am surprised cassettes are offered along with vinyl and cds on new releases. There must be demand for them but I have nothing to play them on now so who does?

some still have working players, it must take a lot of confidence by some producers to only release music on tape....

 

[nads]

Can’t say I would buy new music on tape. Though I do have cassettes and a working player. But I no longer really have the need as the main use of the cassette was to play music in the car that I had on vinyl.

 

[Gray]

some still have working players

I've still got decks from Pioneer, Sony, Akai and JVC, plus the odd portable. All were working.
I did intend to do regular full wind-throughs of all my cassettes to minimise print-through...but didn't keep it up.
(The earth's magnetic field must have been slowly taking its toll on the 50 year old ones 🧲 ).

 

[skinnypuppy71]

..ohhhh man..remember when your car radio cassette deck chewed yer fave mix tape...the one you spent ages over...fade in...fade out etc etc....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😡

 

[DCarmi]

Cassette sales have been rising for reasons that escape me. Usually they are more expensive than the CD. I still have a player and can't quite bring myself to ditch my tapes, despite not having played one for yonks.

It is a shame the younger generation will not know the frustration, when the tape you are recording runs out 30 seconds before the track you are recording. Nor the elation when you find a track you want that nicely fits on the end of a tape.

To link 2 threads together Queen's Greatest Hits was the 4th best selling cassette of last year.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

I can see the nostalgia appeal*, but cassettes were a right royal PITA. Physical wear, poor sound quality, serial access - if someone came up with the idea now they'd be laughed off Dragons' Den, and deservedly so.

I'm sure we've got some in a box in the garage rafters, where they will stay until we're carried off in our own boxes...

*I suspect many of us recorded the things we like from the charts each week. I recorded mine from my mum's Amstrad, which recorded and played back at slightly different speeds. Mark of real quality, that.

 

[abacus]

I am surprised cassettes are offered along with vinyl and cds on new releases. There must be demand for them but I have nothing to play them on now so who does?

Very few people still had record players but the sales of new and old have increased significantly as people get back into vinyl. (The same will apply to cassette players with refurbished one’s going for serious money and rumoured new ones on the way)

Bill

 

[abacus]

There were better compact formats which died, eg R-Dat and mini disc offering
better sound quality.

R-DAT was mainly used in studios with very few consumer models available.
Mini Disc came out long after Cassettes were on the downward spiral.
Have a listen to a Nakamichi with Metal Tape and you will be blown away at just how good cassettes can sound. (Even today)

Bill

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

I doubt they'll have a vinylesque resurgence - there's no interaction with the medium the way there is with vinyl, no large attractive sleeve etc.

 

[abacus]

I've still got decks from Pioneer, Sony, Akai and JVC, plus the odd portable. All were working.
I did intend to do regular full wind-throughs of all my cassettes to minimise print-through...but didn't keep it up.
(The earth's magnetic field must have been slowly taking its toll on the 50 year old ones 🧲 ).

Wind them forward and back a few times (Assuming they were quality tapes) and you will be surprised.

Bill

 

[Gray]

Very few people still had record players but the sales of new and old have increased significantly as people get back into vinyl. (The same will apply to cassette players with refurbished one’s going for serious money and rumoured new ones on the way)

Bill

That's all the incentive I need to retain my decks 😉
(Not that I needed it, I've never chucked anything)

 

[RoA]

No. One of the worst music carriers ever. I did like the look of my my then Technics Deck though with the damped tray and meters. Strictly for RETROPHILIACS.

 

[Al ears]

I doubt they'll have a vinylesque resurgence - there's no interaction with the medium the way there is with vinyl, no large attractive sleeve etc.

Wonder if the new cassettes come with a free pencil......

 

[nopiano]

Wonder if the new cassettes come with a free pencil......

Ha, ha. You have to be of a certain age to get that! 🙂

 

[Al ears]

Ha, ha. You have to be of a certain age to get that! 🙂

surely anyone that's used to playing cassettes is of that certain age....

 

[camcroft]