Joining the cassette geeks…

[Revolutions]

I’d been toying with the idea of getting a cassette deck for a few years now. tbh, probably as much for aesthetics as the fun of playing the few tapes I own, and maybe collecting a few more.

Last year I saw a photo from the Maverick hifi show of the most incredible cassette deck in someone’s setup. After some enquiries I found the user & he kindly told me it was a Tandberg TCD-330.

The price of decent quality decks had stifled any impulse buys, and given the price of the Tandbergs I’d forgotten about them. Until an old eBay search popped up this morning with a fully-working, boxed model for an extremely sensible price.

Will have to pay some import from Germany, but I can’t wait to try it out 😃

 

[Messiah]

Not seen that before. I think it looks great!

I still have my Kenwood cassette deck. Bought it brand new back in the late 90’s and never used it much so it’s still in great shape.

I just keep it for nostalgia more than anything but I still have a few albums and audiobooks (Hobbit, Lord of the Rings) I will play occasionally.

 

[Jasonovich]

Whatever happened to DAT?

Update:

 

[Revolutions]

Whatever happened to DAT?

You can buy recorders & tapes still. Both are pretty expensive. I used them a bit for recording on the go years back,

Not seen that before. I think it looks great!

I still have my Kenwood cassette deck. Bought it brand new back in the late 90’s and never used it much so it’s still in great shape.

I just keep it for nostalgia more than anything but I still have a few albums and audiobooks (Hobbit, Lord of the Rings) I will play occasionally.

I’m definitely on the nostalgia side of it 😊

What model is your deck? I’ll go and check out your setup in the other thread for photos.

 

[abacus]

That one was as common as muck in the 70s (Possibly early 80s) and was a decent deck. (As was most Tandberg products), as it could be used flat or vertical, they then went on to release some really top-notch units.
Interesting video here (And as you would expect being personal it will not match everybody's list), but worth a view.

 

[Friesiansam]

Whatever happened to DAT?

DAT is still used for data backup, in situations where very high reliability takes priority over speed.

 

[RoA]

Truly one of the worst formats (imho) but if you have tapes you want to play ...

 

[jamesrfisher]

Still have my Yamaha deck purchased in 1990. Have a few tapes I still play, mainly mixtapes I made but a few tapes where the album is not on streaming services

 

[Al ears]

Still have my Yamaha deck purchased in 1990. Have a few tapes I still play, mainly mixtapes I made but a few tapes where the album is not on streaming services

The only reason I kept my Sony WM-D6C professional Walkman for so long.
Tapes of pub bands I recorded myself.
Sadly Iet it go last year.
Got a great price for it though....

 

[Messiah]

What model is your deck? I’ll go and check out your setup in the other thread for photos.

KX-3060.

Hopefully a better photo than my thread.

 

[Revolutions]

That one was as common as muck in the 70s (Possibly early 80s) and was a decent deck. (As was most Tandberg products), as it could be used flat or vertical, they then went on to release some really top-notch units.
Interesting video here (And as you would expect being personal it will not match everybody's list), but worth a view.

Thanks, will give this a watch 😊