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New tape decks are nowhere as good as older ones made in the 80s, when you get into the 90s they tend to have lots of electronics that wasn't as durable or repairable as what the 80s ones. Mid to late 80s refurbished by someone would be the best bet if you can't do it yourself.
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His Divine Shadow posted:New tape decks are nowhere as good as older ones made in the 80s, when you get into the 90s they tend to have lots of electronics that wasn't as durable or repairable as what the 80s ones. Mid to late 80s refurbished by someone would be the best bet if you can't do it yourself. They were the greatest in the early 90s, before they knew that CDs were going to take over. Look at this Pioneer CT-979! Auto bias, so what? This one even moves the knob while tuning in! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMhKaVRD15c&t=19s This is my dream deck, the Sony TC-KA7ES: 
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Mr.Fuzzywig posted:The old tape deck my pops had died, trying to find a new one so we can keep listening to all the old cassettes he has and transfer them over. Is it recommended if im looking for another tape deck to go with something older thats been refurbished or buy a new one from the couple companies that still make em like TEAC and the like? I'd say refurbished. There's a lot of cheap ish new ones, especially small/portable ones, that all share a pretty crap mechanism as if I understand it correctly it's the only one being manufactured. TEAC won't be using that one though, I didn't know they still sold new. Refurbishment is relatively easy so you can get really good stuff that route too.
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Nothing like that feeling of sliding in a tape into the car stereo, than blasting it down Route 115.
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I just picked this up for free.   Everything technically works. It just needs a bunch of connections cleaned. I have a really nice 7.2 system but there's something endearing about listening to old funk or country music on the most lo-fi thing imaginable. Edmund Sparkler fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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Finally got myself an Alpine (the other one I posted I missed out on). Not my ideal model but still, I like the look of the model a lot, it will go nicely in my Saab 900 Video of a similar unit being demoed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSEUYQ4NffE
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Aand installed:
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tapes are dogshit op lol (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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git apologist posted:tapes are dogshit op lol yeah that's part of the charm
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Tapes are actually surprisingly good when they're high quality. poo poo tapes are poo poo though but the same goes for LPs.
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Yeah I've definitely had some "wait how is this coming from a tape" moments while going through my catalog. Unfortunately life hits you in the face because enevitably the next one you load sounds like hell. Still worth it.
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Tarkus posted:Tapes are actually surprisingly good when they're high quality. poo poo tapes are poo poo though but the same goes for LPs. yeah this
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isn't the case that all prerecorded music tapes always are poo poo? since they never are metal types
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Tarkus posted:Tapes are actually surprisingly good when they're high quality. poo poo tapes are poo poo though but the same goes for LPs. I just recorded a bunch off stuff off my PC via my luxman k-230 deck onto some NOS tapes, drat it sounds good when the source is also good quality. And these are not metal, that's a lot of hype IMO that only metal tapes sound good. These are type 1s, Maxell URs.
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JSmithOTI posted:Started collecting tapes this year and it's been a lot of fun. Up to 130 right now and I've been using random number generators to decide which one to listen to from the collection. I love the chonky buttons that cassette players. I take it you missed out on 8-track.
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I definitely did! Tapes were phasing out when I was a kid and I only had CDs growing up.
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Bula Vinaka posted:I remember when CD's were the future, because with digital sound, analog noise was a thing of the past. Everyone was always writing about how music listened to via tape or vinyl was "mostly noise" so eliminating it would be a great thing. do you like making up stuff or are you just thick... tape recordings (like vinyl) suck fundamentally and literally do not have enough physical space on them to hold the entire frequency range most music was composed to use. bass is generally greatly diminished or outright removed to compensate so you get weak mixes. Tape isn't "imparting" poo poo, audio engineers have to mutilate a song to get it to fit on this obsolete and frankly gay format (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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sex excellence posted:frankly gay format gently caress off with this poo poo
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best bale posted:gently caress off with this poo poo ok,
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sex excellence posted:frankly gay format
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Imagine being so weird that you to come to the tape thread for people who like tapes and telling people that like tapes to not like tapes. Anywho, wife got me a couple of tapes recently, a Trio album of Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris; and Mommas & Papas' California Dreamin. Both sound great!
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hey welcome to the thread. didnt expect to see you here until this very post
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Tankakern posted:isn't the case that all prerecorded music tapes always are poo poo? since they never are metal types Metal tapes are very exotic to me, I don't think I've ever even seen those for sale back in the day. What I had access to were the usual poo poo-brown ferro tapes you'd find in the supermarket and they could be hit or miss for sure, especially when the format started to phase out, and the black chrome dioxide ones which were the bees knees. If you got one of those in a trade you know the guy cared about you lol. I listened to a Bauhaus chrome mixtape from the 80s not too long ago and that one still sounded as good as a dub from vinyl could get. Honestly I don't know how the quality is these days because I don't buy any new tapes but I can't imagine they are any better than the lovely ones in the late 90s/00s. Grab Im Moor fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Sep 21, 2023 |
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i bought a cassette tape this weekend 
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I remember when Tower Records closed and I got a bunch of cool tapes to play in my old red Volvo for like fifty cents each
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here it is. i'm gonna dig through my parent's basement later for a working walkman
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hell yeah chat pile
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kntfkr posted:here it is. i'm gonna dig through my parent's basement later for a working walkman i love that album check out "hostile architecture" by ashenspire if you havent already. metal band from glasgow. prettty sure any chat pile fan would appreciate their work
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Earwicker posted:i love that album haha ashenspire has been coming on shuffle a lot lately and I do like them Here's the end from the last song of the Chat Pile show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNTPeumZLms I liked the bands that opened for them as well, NERVER and INTERCOURSE. Really like Nerver.
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kntfkr posted:i bought a cassette tape this weekend This is a bit of a derail but I noticed that my local discount department store has rolls of 35mm film as a regular SKU, $14 for a roll of ASA 200 lol
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My home office is done, so my Sony stereo finally got its forever home: The tape deck is connected to the minidisc player, which is connected digitally to the Powernode, which powers the actual speakers. The Sony amplifier is just for looks right now.
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His Divine Shadow posted:New tape decks are nowhere as good as older ones made in the 80s, when you get into the 90s they tend to have lots of electronics that wasn't as durable or repairable as what the 80s ones. Mid to late 80s refurbished by someone would be the best bet if you can't do it yourself.  I came back from my parents with this; they let me go through all their old AV stuff; 4 out of 6 tape decks do not spin but both of these work, one sounds great, the recording head sounds dirty but I haven't tried a cleaner yet, because I am lazy. My friend who is more cassette brained than me said "of course you just take it if it's being offered, if both decks work you're probably looking at spending several hundred dollars to get anything similar, who cares about the CD tray". He's right, but I've still been tinkering with the CD tray, and I have it more working. Also got a pair of these sweet $100-in-1972 speakers to go along with:  These are 20-30 years older than the speakers that came with the Sony, which were also sitting down there. These sound better, and look like speakers, instead of that weird 90s thing of speakers that look like a flux capacitor.  Because I am very smart, I just spent around $35 shipped for a 30-year-old cassette which also has a more recent re-issue I could have gotten for less money and which would be more likely to not sound like it's been in a lake.
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https://i.imgur.com/XucyVBf.mp4 (sound on) Just doing normal things to listen to badly degraded Nirvana tapes from 35 years ago!!
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evobatman posted:My home office is done, so my Sony stereo finally got its forever home: gently caress yeah love those dumb square driver speakers. I have the baby version of the Sony's that was sold to go along with a Walkman (tragically mine lost the little carrying rack somewhere along the way), and some bookshelf size Aiwas.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:
wait are those crappy little Sony 2-tape/CD sets worth money now? because my dad has like 5 of those scattered throughout the house all in perfect shape
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Snow Cone Capone posted:wait are those crappy little Sony 2-tape/CD sets worth money now? because my dad has like 5 of those scattered throughout the house all in perfect shape so did my dad, but actually only 2/6 decks worked, pristine condition or not, so that's the first thing to check. if you have random tape decks from the 90s in good shape that work, yes they are probably nicer than anything you can easily get new in 2023 and also might have some resale value on reverb etc, especially if they play type III/IV tapes ("METAL" toggle switch, often)
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In my opinion, the Technics (Panasonic / Matsushida) RS-B965 is the best tape deck ever made. Connecting a CD player to the "CD Direct" jack, and then switching between this input and the tape recording as it's recording (which you can do on a 3-head deck), it's pretty much impossible to tell the difference unless you are using very bad or damaged tape. I bought mine when I was still in college and it blew me away, especially when I played my recording in my car (a 1986 New Yorker) which only had a cassette player (but I had upgraded the rear speakers and installed an amplifier). One of them just came up on eBay with an $899 buy-it-now. https://www.ebay.com/itm/175919824394 It's used but has been fully serviced. It's the 100V Japanese model so you need a step-down converter for use in the USA. Most people recommend these cheap Chinese made models on Amazon but I highly recommend ACUPWR as they are way better made and much safer, although they cost quite a lot more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC2aeHc6fvc By the way, the late 1980's New Yorker has sort of become a meme with its cheesy talking voice instead of tones, which I guess Chrysler though was extremely high tech at the time or something (including its green all digital display): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW9nmuTqIE0
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sex excellence posted:do you like making up stuff or are you just thick... tape recordings (like vinyl) suck fundamentally and literally do not have enough physical space on them to hold the entire frequency range most music was composed to use. bass is generally greatly diminished or outright removed to compensate so you get weak mixes. Tape isn't "imparting" poo poo, audio engineers have to mutilate a song to get it to fit on this obsolete and frankly gay format u wot mate?
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Only a couple copies left for pre-order of the new DJ Shadow album on cassette: https://djshadow.com/collections/music/products/dj-shadow-action-adventure-cassette-tape
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