Old school Music Players

YeehaaMcgee

A friend's teenage daughter has seen plenty of vinyl records, due to her dad being quite into his dance music. But what made us both feel really old was when we were clearing out his attic, and she asked us what "this thing is".
She was holding a cassette tape, and had never seen one before in her life.
Sigh.

nicklouse

i was thinking it would have been an 8 track cassette.

Bought a Mini with one of them in years ago.

YeehaaMcgee

Nope, just a regular cassette. I've known this girl since she was a little kiddy, and it was shocking to hear her point out that she's never seen a cassette.

supersonic

Old Cyrus kit sounds amazing, the calrity is breathtaking. Here is some of mine:



Cyrus 2 with PSX. Also a Marantz CD4000 CD player.

Anonymous

YeehaaMcgee wrote:

it was shocking to hear her point out that she's never seen a cassette.

Haven't lived unless you've had a double tape deck ghetto blaster. Only real use though was for copying 100s of computer games from your friends onto a C-60 cassette. Old school version of The Pirate Bay.

I'm thankful that tapes died for music though. Awful. Though they were in Dubly.

Just a shame crap bitrate MP3s have taken over.

Fantastic Mr Fox

Mylie Cyrus sounds excellent regardless of the radio.

thekickingmule

YeehaaMcgee wrote:

Nope, just a regular cassette. I've known this girl since she was a little kiddy, and it was shocking to hear her point out that she's never seen a cassette.

Fantastic Mr Fox

Although you're all acting like tapes are ancient history (like they should be) my mates Audi A3 on a 07 plate came with a tape deck. Why bother?!

YeehaaMcgee

Fantastic Mr Fox wrote:

Although you're all acting like tapes are ancient history (like they should be) my mates Audi A3 on a 07 plate came with a tape deck. Why bother?!

You're right, I'd forgotten about that

A mate of mine bought an Audi fairly recently too, which came with a tape deck. When he complained, they said he hadn't specced a CD player.
His answer was that in this f***ing millenium, he shouldn't fu**ing have to

Fantastic Mr Fox wrote:

Mylie Cyrus sounds excellent regardless of the radio.

Maybe, but the best song ever, which will always sound awesome, regardless of the playback medium, is Billy Ray Piper's "Because we want to".

Fantastic Mr Fox

Yeah, its actually more expensive to buy tape decks than CD players these days. Its just most consumers will pay the extra for a CD player at sale so its extra cash for the car company. I guess its just some companies spec fleet cars with them.

paul20v

Heres mine a fair bit of jvc old school 1983 to be exact
except the stanton deck obviously
the jvc cd is 1995 ish and the sony 400 cd changer at the bottom around 02

veronese68

nicklouse wrote:

remember when CDs came out and we all put jam and scratched the top surface and they still played!

OK that might have been on TV but

Of course I remember, it was only a couple of years ago.
Amazing how many cd's in the car get scratched. There are still some old songs that if they are played on the radio I expect them to skip at a certain point, because that's what my vinyl did.

homers_double

Trio Kenwood amp
Trio Kenwood tuner
Teac CD/DVD player
JPW speakers.

Massivly loud and totaly unsuitable for the house as the accoustics are wrong but you have to love the bass.

Fantastic Mr Fox

I used to rock out to this in the eighties.