Anyone still listen to Cassettes?

[autowasherfreak]

I was going through my closet and I found a box of of cassetts, I've been listening to them all morning. Partridge Family, ABBA, Linda Rondstadt, and Tammy Wynette and George Jones. Some of the cassetts sound muffled, is this because of age? I bought a used RCA dual cassette deck at Goodwill for $8.00 several years ago. I would love to get a turntable, I have two boxes of 33's that I have listened to in years.

 

[autowasherfreak]

Here's the tape deck and my modern stereo.

 

[petek]

I never really got into cassettes,, Had a player in the car, still have my cassette deck stereo but never really used either of them.

 

[whirlcool]

I have a Luxman stereo deck and while it sits in the stereo cabinet, I haven't even connected it probably in five years or so.

I have some cassette tapes I made back in the late 70's/early 80's that I like. My car actually has a cassette deck in it as part of the CD deck. Highly unusual. On occasion I play cassettes on it. A few years ago a friend sent me a cassette of music mixes he made out the old Beatles songs. I would have thought that since it was 2009 he would have made a CD by then.

 

[autowasherfreak]

I wish I could figure why the radio doesn't work anymore on my stereo. About 4 years ago, we had a really bad thunderstorm and lightening struck somewhere in the back yard, and ever since then the radio AM and FM no longer work, tried hooking up an antenna and still nothing it can't even find stations when in search mode.

 

[cfz2882]

Oh yes

i still use cassettes a lot-especially for car use-i find them to be handier,more
durable for car use and truer sounding than CDs or other digital playback methods.
Even still record "mix tapes"for car use-different soundtracks for different cars.
Using high quality recording and playback equipment is the key to high fidelity
with cassettes-still can have sound and playback glitches sometimes though due to
the mechanical nature of tape playback;muffled sound is often caused by missing
pressure pad(glue ages and they fall off)or an out of position pressure pad.Warped
cases and squeeling guide rollers also happen as can tape stretch after hundreds
of plays.
MY main home cassette decks:
'85 studer revox B215
'82 studer revox B710 Mk2
'81 Akai GX-F 60R(nearly as good as the two german machines,early'80s seems to be
the best era for japanese equipment as they started to really cheap out after
about 1985...)
Car decks:
-'81 porsche 928:'87 benz becker"grand prix"-this was meant to be temporary,to use
untill i found a period correct blaupunkt i liked,but i got to really like the
becker and it's still in place over 7yrs later...i made sure to use german
speakers too.
-'82 z28 camaro '84 delco,modified,based on '84 cadi seville and '84 vette delco
radios-has the blaupunkt transport first used in '84.hooked up to a 400w "period
correct"system this just rocks!very acurate,detailed and solid sound.
-'89 raider-'89 pioneer,very good radio but cassette nowhere near as good as the
becker or delco/blaupunkt cassettes
-'71 saab 99-'84 blaupunkt analog tuned-kinda BOL radio,but does have the good
style transport and with knobs on either side,looks pretty good in the old
saab dash.Philips speakers salvaged from '80s renaults.
I still run reel to reel and 8-track tape too.

 

[arbilab]

I'm a media snob. 4-track cartridges were the lowest quality I would accept. Never owned an 8-track or cassette. Worked on them though.

 

[gefilterflo]

I do because the radio in my '93 Buick Regal is a three-piece Delco stereo and I don't want to replace it with aftermarket for a number of reasons.

 

[tolivac]

Have an Onkyo cassette deck in my Hi-fi system-haven't used it in a while-one of my cars had a cassette player-have sold that car.Have many cassettes of band organ music.This is the only format some of that music came out on.The Studor Cassette machines are familiar to me-see them used a lot in radio stations at one time-not so anymore.One station I worked at used Nakamchi cassette machines-these were considered the best.Now--they are gone.Those were really nice machines.Studor and the "Naks" were the cream of the crop.

 

[electron1100]

Definately Yes!

Being an analogue fan i have never stopped using reel-to-reel, Elcaset and cassette, and also having been an audio engineer most of my working life servicing them has not been a problem.
At present (for some years) I am Using a Nakamichi BX-300 which is a stunning machine, and there a few others that i have owned over the years which show the cassette medium at its best.

I would trade convenience for sound quality every time, IPODS etc are too me so rude sounding i will not entertain them.

This picture shows Pioneers briliant CT-F9191 a two head very well built and excellent sounding unit from the mid 1970s

 

[electron1100]

Sony TC-K8

Another superb model from the 1970s sitting under the excellent Sony EL-7 Elcaset

 

[electron1100]

Nakamichi BX-300E

Amazing machine

 

[electron1100]

Sony TC-765

One of Sonys best domestic units sitting above one of Technics best turntables

 

[electron1100]

Akai GXC-570D

One of Akai's finest from the 1970s

 

[twinniefan]

Me too

Yes, I still have a stack of cassettes quite a lot of them have different songs that I like which I taped off different radio stations, and I still take my walkman with me and listen to my music on the way to work on the train.

 

[laundromat]

I have lots of cds I had recorded at clubs via djs and want to save them. So, I record off cd on to tape and have a nice Sony boombox i take with me every weekend to where ever I wind up.I had newer cds I took along that were completely ruined by scratches and are far,far more delicate then any tapes when you're taking a bike trail or two here.

 

[tolivac]

Technics SP-10's Seen and serviced a lot of those in radio stations-then when digital came out-----the TT's just disappeared.The SP-10 does make an excellent home Hi-Fi TT.Very nice Hi-FI system shown in the pictures-sure takes me back in time-vaguely remember the Elcassettes-never used them.

 

[112561]

I've bought some cassette goodies over the last five years, not listening to them per se though, just making sure I've got a good stock in here. I want a Magnavox badged reel to reel, they never show up in stores here. I hesitate to use Ebay for anything anymore. Last cassette machine I bought is a deck, I overpaid because I wanted the Magnavox name, and the thing dates to 1971.

 

[cfz2882]

philips magnavox

so are '70s magnavox cassette players philips built or use philips transport?
A 1970 chrysler underdash cassette player/recorder i have has a philips transport.