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Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:46 pm
by True-Blue
TitanTim wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:55 pm
BeeEmm wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:38 pm
True-Blue wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 4:12 pm
Why?…..
This is going to sound way worse than any decent modern phone with earbuds or headphones… some things are best left in the past
I agree with this. I always want to listen to music the way the artist intended when recording. Todays available high end speakers, headphones and high quality streaming services get very close to that. If I want to feel something tactile while listening to music, I turn my champagne glass round and round in my hand.
No good though if you're listening era is the 60s, good to listen to the music how it was recorded at the time
Tim.
Except there was no one playing the lead ‘hiss’ or the double ‘crackle’ was there?
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:51 pm
by TitanTim
True-Blue wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:46 pm
TitanTim wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:55 pm
BeeEmm wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:38 pm
I agree with this. I always want to listen to music the way the artist intended when recording. Todays available high end speakers, headphones and high quality streaming services get very close to that. If I want to feel something tactile while listening to music, I turn my champagne glass round and round in my hand.
No good though if you're listening era is the 60s, good to listen to the music how it was recorded at the time
Tim.
Except there was no one playing the lead ‘hiss’ or the double ‘crackle’ was there?
it was there it just gets filtered out in the digital process
Tim.
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:29 pm
by Mr Tidy
I've still got some unused TDK cassettes that I don't know what to do with!
Still in the cellophane, six C60 and five C74 (you could usually get an album on each side). Let me know if they'd be any use to you.
Pretty sure I've still got a Walkman somewhere too.
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:54 pm
by TitanTim
Mr Tidy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:29 pm
I've still got some unused TDK cassettes that I don't know what to do with!
Still in the cellophane, six C60 and five C74 (you could usually get an album on each side). Let me know if they'd be any use to you.
Pretty sure I've still got a Walkman somewhere too.
Many thanks thats really kind of you, if I can get my CD player working again so I can record will let you know
If you still have your Walkman, depending on which model it is it could be worth a bob or two. Have a look on ebay.
This seller on ebay has loads of them at pretty prices
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item= ... =farish_98
Tim.
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:59 pm
by Mr Tidy
TitanTim wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:54 pm
Many thanks thats really kind of you, if I can get my CD player working again so I can record will let you know If you still have your Walkman, depending on which model it is it could be worth a bob or two. Have a look on ebay.
This seller on ebay has loads of them at pretty prices
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item= ... =farish_98
Tim.
My Walkman is nothing fancy, but it looks like it might have some value.
I've got a cheap "Discman" type thing somewhere too so you could probably record from that via the headphone socket.
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:04 pm
by TitanTim
Mr Tidy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:59 pm
TitanTim wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:54 pm
Many thanks thats really kind of you, if I can get my CD player working again so I can record will let you know If you still have your Walkman, depending on which model it is it could be worth a bob or two. Have a look on ebay.
This seller on ebay has loads of them at pretty prices
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item= ... =farish_98
Tim.
My Walkman is nothing fancy, but it looks like it might have some value.
I've got a cheap "Discman" type thing somewhere too so you could probably record from that via the headphone socket.
Hopefully I can get my CD payer up an running again, all part of the fun
At least my radio from 1969 is still going strong
Nice and compact so I can take it on holiday
Tim.
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:17 pm
by Pondrew
Ah Grundig!
Our first colour TV was Grundig. As soon as I saw the name I can smell the plasticky/ transistory smell of the very basic remote control.
Happy days!
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:21 pm
by buzyg
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:23 pm
by TitanTim
Pondrew wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:17 pm
Ah Grundig!
Our first colour TV was Grundig. As soon as I saw the name I can smell the plasticky/ transistory smell of the very basic remote control.
Happy days!
It smells like that inside
The telescopic aerial extends to around 20 feet, I'm sure in 1969 it would have picked up the moon landings
Tim.
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:25 pm
by TitanTim
Thats why they sound so good so once you've had a bottle or two it makes no difference
Tim.
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:26 pm
by B21
1536Z4 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:34 pm
B21 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:03 pm
Radio Luxembourg on 208 metres on a dark night?
Is that when it used to fade in and out ?? My Dad told me it was due to the waves and for ages I thought he meant the waves as it came over the sea
Correct ..the signal could only get to most folks in the UK by bouncing off one of the many charged layers in the earths ionosphere…usually the D layer but sometimes the F layer.
As these are not stable, affected by many factors the signals would fade in and out,.
FWIW
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:27 pm
by B21
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:29 pm
by Pondrew
Well I'm with you Tim....nostalgia is the name of this game.
I started looking at National Panasonic 'music centres' on eBay a while ago, as we had one in the living room when I was a kid. That also had a very memorable 'smell' (of burning dust, plastic and basic PCBs).
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:32 pm
by Pondrew
B21 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:26 pm
Correct ..the signal could only get to most folks in the UK by bouncing off one of the many charged layers in the earths ionosphere…usually the D layer but sometimes the F layer.
I always thought is was the F..ing C layer.
Revisiting Cassettes Tapes
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:48 pm
by TitanTim
Pondrew wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:29 pm
Well I'm with you Tim....nostalgia is the name of this game.
I started looking at National Panasonic 'music centres' on eBay a while ago, as we had one in the living room when I was a kid. That also had a very memorable 'smell' (of burning dust, plastic and basic PCBs).
Always like the old as well as the new, when I bought a new guitar amplifier a few years back in had to be a valve amp purely as the tone is better when cranked up and the valves are cooking. I also have a valve ipod player so old and new together. Thats why people still prefer vinyl to digital for a warmer sound, tapes the same although you can do alsorts with that, yes it can all be digitally synthesised now to mimic certain sound types from back in the day but its still not the same, plus I like things with lots of buttons
Tim.