Does anybody still play music cassettes?

[Sam GT]

I was just wondering, since I own quite a few Nakamichi cassette decks. One of them has Gold on the front! Anybody guess what model? Sam

 

[adason]

http://naks.com/home.html
Nakamichi
1000ZXL Limited
(1983-1984)

 

[adason]

http://www.vintagecassette.com/Nakamichi/1000ZXL_Limited

 

[sco1t]

I love Cassettes!!! Type 2 with Dolby C sound just about as good as a CD on a good Player

 

[sco1t]

Cassettes Do you like them?

Does any one still like Cassettes?
I have a 3 head JVC cassette deck from 1983 and it sounds amazing when type 2 tapes are used.
It's a shame that most people don't like them

 

[indianajo]

I have a musician's sense of pitch and I have always hated cassettes. Wow and flutter is quite audible, IMHO. I've never owned a high end cassette deck but my $60 1985 RCA CD player always performed quite well to my ear: and it still does. My mother's $140 Panasonic cassette player never even came close on pitch stability. I inherited her cassette player and cassette collection, but never play anything but the FM radio function.

 

[kannan_s]

The reason probably - you have not heard Nak Dragon or ZX 9 in good condition-
People pay $$$$ for a good serviced Nak
I own 1000ZXL limited +1000ZXL + Dragon+ CR 7A and few other Naks

 

[sco1t]

wow only $60 for a CD player in 1985. I didn't know CD players were around then.
I guess Cassette players are only really good if they are very high end....

would any one like to here a song from my cassette deck to see if it really is good???

 

[Bksabath]

I was just wondering, since I own quite a few Nakamichi cassette decks. One of them has Gold on the front! Anybody guess what model? Sam

You can send that to me and I will environmentally dispose of it free of charge

Might as well send rest as well and as one off I will extend the free charge to the lot

 

[Bksabath]

The reason probably - you have not heard Nak Dragon or ZX 9 in good condition-
People pay $$$$ for a good serviced Nak
I own 1000ZXL limited +1000ZXL + Dragon+ CR 7A and few other Naks

Yes absolutley. Especialy when one has loads of tapes taken at the desk direct from live concert and before dinamics have been compresed over and over again to make CD.

No need to pay $$$$ I do disposal for free Just send it to me

 

[Cobra2]

Naka BX-150 & hk CD-491 here

Arne K

 

[AVWERK]

Still have an LX3 and 2 td1200 car head units in abox somewhere. I never thought they sounded exceptional even when they were at the top of the heap.
At least the concept stayed around for awhile compared to today,s technogoly

Regards
David

 

[sco1t]

LOL poor tape players

They only sound good with type 2 or 4 tapes, Type 1 sound rubbish

 

[Dude111]

Does anybody still play music cassettes?

Indeed I do Sam!

I am very selective when i buy them!!!!!!

I make sure its not DIGITALLY TRANSFERRED to the tape (I look for XDR and/or I read the detail sleeve (If it has one))

I make sure its not a CHROME tape as those dont sound as good in my opinion....


I only get original format releases... The newest tape i have gotton is from 1991: Micheal Bolton "Time love and tenderness"

I imagine anything newer will be HARD TO FIND not digitally transferred

 

[sofaspud]

I've bought a few over the past 5 years; sealed tapes from the $1 or $2 bin. Still have about 400 or so in tape suitcases, but they have all gone into storage since I transferred them to 1's and 0's.

 

[Bare]

sadly yess. I still have a Cassette gizmo in my car (oem) Frankly though it doesn't sound great. Decent but not great. But better than the radio IF one could tolerate the gibberish inherent to current radio.
Annoyingly the cassettes are a genuine PITA to store and switch tracks on.

 

[x-pro]

Cassettes now my main source of music, mostly recorded from vinyl or reels. Much better sound than CD, more convenient to use than vinyl (and saves precious LPs from wear and damage) and a lot of fun. I have quite a number of good cassette decks and many of them are used on a daily basis. I forgot when I've used my CD player last time - probably over a year ago.

Cheers

Alex

 

[Fusor]

I had collected over two decades several hundred cassettes of Jim Wilke's Jazz After Hours. Took them to Mexico one winter and gifted them to a friend there.

 

[Cobra2]

Cassettes now my main source of music, mostly recorded from vinyl or reels. Much better sound than CD, more convenient to use than vinyl (and saves precious LPs from wear and damage) and a lot of fun. I have quite a number of good cassette decks and many of them are used on a daily basis. I forgot when I've used my CD player last time - probably over a year ago.

Cheers

Alex

I found lots of interesting reading on A.N.T. Audio :: Welcome :: News

Arne K

 

[pcb121055]

I have been kinda curious about how cassettes might sound to me these days. I have a Nak RX-202 and a TD-800 (car unit) stashed. I also have lots of old tapes. Twenty years ago, I ended a 15 year audio retail career and throughout, it seemed like you could just hear noise build up with successive plays on demo LPs. So most people I knew would play a new direct-to-disc, imported pressing or remaster once to record it and then just play it the recording. Only break out the LP on special occasions. This demanded that you had a good, calibrate-able deck and good tape. For my era, the ZX7, ZX9 or Dragon were the reference and we would all use the store's demo unit to make recordings. So... Thanks for bringing this up. I need to dig that stuff out and see For that matter, I am also curious about my old Akai open reel deck.