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Curt Palme CRT Tech
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Link Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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Never! My Nakamichi automatically tensions the tape, and I'm not fool enough to store a cassette mid-tape so that some cool part of a song gets damaged. So there!
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AnalogRocks Forum Moderator
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Link Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Curt Palme wrote: | Never! My Nakamichi automatically tensions the tape, and I'm not fool enough to store a cassette mid-tape so that some cool part of a song gets damaged. So there! |
Reel to Reel tail out
When I get a new ( old ) tape like this I always FF and REW twice before playing. First however I tension the tape.
You know this Pioneer deck may just have the auto tension feature. It does everything else.
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Curt Palme CRT Tech
Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 24303 Location: Langley, BC
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I actually ran through 5 cassette decks for a customer/buddy of mine yesterday. All need belts, so I've got 10 of each on order. Repairs are through the roof at this point, but I only do them when I have time. So I order belts by the 10-lot as the price comes way down. I still hate repairing cassette decks over RTRs.
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WanMan
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I never bought into cassette tapes. Went from 8-track and vinyl to CD, back to vinyl.
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deronmoped
Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 1154 Location: San Diego
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I never used the pre-recorded tapes, I always used the good quality blank tapes and recorded off my records. The sound quality was much better and tape/mechanism never gave me any problems.
We even took it to the extreme for car audio back in the 70's and 80's. My brother and I would use inverters so we could run a house stereo amp and record player.
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mc86
Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 765 Location: pittsburgh, pa
TV/Projector: ECP 4500 (Vidikron box), ECP4500+, wanting 07MS/07MTS, evaluating pc soft-blend
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Link Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 4:54 am Post subject: |
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I've got a 1989 suburban that is all conversion-van styled (with the disco lights inside, etc) -- something like the starsky and hutch car, but in red and white and on a truck. Anyway, I put maybe 500 miles on it each year as it is a junk and dumpster-diving enabler/3rd vehicle if one is in the shop. Since I'm not in it much, I've never bothered replacing/enhancing the factory radio. I only listen to cassettes I made in the late 80s/early 1990s -- the expensive maxell tapes have held up. Remember the CaseLogic cases -- three of them live in the truck!
So, yep, I do the pen thing sometimes still as the auto-reverse sometimes goes off falsely...
Matt
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CIR Engineering
Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 4264 Location: Chicago USA & Berlin Germany
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Link Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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WanMan wrote: | I never bought into cassette tapes. Went from 8-track and vinyl to CD, back to vinyl. |
LOL, exactly the same story here!
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CIR Engineering
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Link Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 11:13 pm Post subject: Re: When was the last time you needed to do this? |
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AnalogRocks wrote: | Was just listening to cassettes. Pulled out my new ( to me ) BAD Company tape and needed to tighten up the loos tape. Funny but under the tape deck there was a pen. Perfect!!
When was the last time you needed to do that? |
And uggg. I am never touching a tape again if I can help it. I understand the vinyl resurgence, but tapes and their hiss just want to make me pretend they never happened.
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mc86
Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 765 Location: pittsburgh, pa
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Link Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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When you're rumbling in an old truck with the windows down, Johnny Cash belting out Folsom Prison Blues sounds fine with hiss, etc. Plus, with me singing along as I drive, the sound is truly awful for other reasons.
I made a lot of the tapes from my dad's vinyl and many of the albums weren't on CD in 1988-1990 when I made them. My Fuzzy Mountain String Band tape didn't come out on CD until the 1995, for example. The Eggplant that Ate Chicago song was one that took me a long time to find, too.
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the big E
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I plan on converting some of the older vynl I have to digital soon
Last vehicle I bought with a cassette deck was my truck(which now has the factory nav which is soon to be replaced with a aftermarket unit since the gps quit)
I rarely even used the tape deck except one or twice and I think it was for my iPod the second time
Ever since its been iPod only through the media gateway(though the truck has seen a LOT more miles since then it still runs great for a 03 with 230k plus miles)
Ps Matt next time your in my area give me a call I found that spare hvps and a board along with the back to the ecp you bought from me.
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