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Sure, I'd be interested in a list. That's a lot of vinyl, though. I don't envy you coming up with that list.
As far as analog vs. digital, I don't really think that one sounds so much better than the other, rather I prefer the warmer sound of vinyl. I clean my records thoroughly, so there's minimal noise, hiss and really no scratches at all. There's always going to be the occasional pop, but I don't mind. My turntable isn't one that has auto-stop and return, so I have to get up to flip the record over, but I don't mind that, either. My turntable also allows me to digitize my records, but I haven't tried yet, and I kinda doubt I ever will. Beyond the sound of records, I love the physical process of listening to them. The smells, the feels... give me physical media any day.
Just treated myself to a Cassette Walkman, been trying to get this model since its release a few months ago as it is always out of stock.
It is my first cassette player in decades and I love it, good aluminum build quality. I also found about 10 tapes today so bought a mini haul to get myself going. The only tape I had left prior to today was The Living Daylights audio book which i have not listened to in decades.
Listening to cassettes again has been a surreal experience, been testing various sets of headphone with the player.
Just have to pop out will reply to other posts later.
That is a nice clean set up, looks like a good quality record player. I have toyed with the idea of getting a good quality record player though hesitant to rebuild a vinyl collection from scratch again.I had a vast collection of vinyl that i got rid of a few decades ago. As much as i like lossless music analogue really does offer a great music listening experience in its own right, I have enjoyed rediscovering music cassettes the last few days.
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@Torgiertrap I have started to replace the majority of my music with FLAC and DSD, at last count I have 8000 songs :)) so it will take some time and money. It will all be worth it once finished in a few years lol Some WAV and MP3 downloads I have are good so those I will keep for now.
I go through phases when it comes to music, at the moment I am listening to a lot of Beatles and 60's and 70's Rock so will focus on that genre first. It will likely take me a long time to get the 'My Ultimate Collection' sorted though much of the fun is the process.
I have been temporally distracted trying to buy music cassette tapes which is a fun trip down memory lane.
I see quite a few releases from artists are also available on cassette tapes. The format might be slowly making a comeback. I have a few cassette tapes myself too, and an 80's cassette boombox, but it's been a while since I've used it. It might need a bit of service given that it's probably close to 40 years old.
https://www.tascam.eu/en/202mkvii
I have got the tape cassette bug and just bought this beast of a machine.
It was not cheap though its one of the best tape decks out there.
I now have 20 cassettes, been lucky and found some great albums.
The oldest tape i have is 54 years old and sounds great, really surprised me how good the audio quality was.
I like to have the best of both worlds, analog and digital. Tapes is my way back in to analog, i am not prepared to build another LP collection so tapes is the next best thing and will enjoy recording with them.
That era of tape decks was the pinnacle of the technology for sure, if only we could tell our past selves to hold on to tech from that era lol
This is the one i bought.
Nice...if one wants to actually still record things on tape. I'm still waiting for word from the repair firm if it makes sense to reactivate my Yamaha K-720, and if it doesn't, I guess that's it for me in terms of tape.
While just browsing around on amazon.de, I stumbled across the Teac W-1200 double cassette deck (the link is too long to insert here), which except for those "wings" or protrusions on each side (this is probably not be the correct term...my English vocabulary does have limits occasionally) with which you can screw the unit to a rack looks exactly the same as your Tascam. Researching a little, I found that apparently Tascam is the "professional" branch of Teac, and actually stands for Teac Audio Systems Corporation Of America... though I'd suppose that technically those two decks are the same if except for what I mentioned they look the same.
Teac and Tascam are the same company, I immediately removed the wings/brackets. I also looked at the Teac W-1200 double cassette deck looks a good player.
I bought some high quality blank cassettes, I have connected my tape deck to my pc and internet radio player. I am looking forward to using Audacity software on pc to make some mix tapes and I will record on tape some of my favorite radio shows.
It will be interesting to see what 16 bit, 24 bit and DSD files sound like on tape.
The tape player is incredible very happy I bought it I love the old school mechanics of the player, I turn 50 in a few months so it was an early birthday gift to myself and its taken me back to my childhood.
40 years ago my tape player was not as good as this one lol
My next mission is to get some John Barry albums and James Bond scores on tape, I regret throwing away my tape collection, though i am enjoying the journey of rebuilding a collection.
Your English is very good.
Haha, yes. My biggest regret re. getting rid of that tape deck, is that it probably given the time of production, and the fact that it was still in working order too, probably was a good tape deck.
One good thing about your recent purchase of a tape deck, is that you will no doubt find good, cheap tape releases in charity shops!
Yeah found 22 tapes so far I did pay £10 each for three of them, charity shops are getting wise. Most of the other tapes I picked up relatively cheap and good deals.
That's not too bad of a price for three tapes, but I've seen cheaper ones in my local "used shops". It very much depends on the artists though. A tape with say, ABBA for example, will have a higher price than a random artist.
Good picks!
So impressed with the sound quality, I bought a lot of chrome/type 2 tapes to record on.
Bought quite a few CD hauls recently, I must be close to 600 CD's now, me re embracing physical music is in full effect.
That is unfortunate though thinking positive it can be a fun project to repair it, I am not a fan of auto reverse as it can misalign the heads, can you disable auto reverse?
I saw a retro Sony front loader tape deck today in a shop I am thinking of buying it. It is £35 though looked on eBay and the player is going for as much as £160, I could put it in my kitchen.
Well, frankly, I enjoyed the autoreverse function at the time (especially since the deck changed direction as soon as the leader tape was detected, so there were no pauses of several seconds on each side), and the deck was as close to high-end (pricewise - it cost about 1,000 Deutsche Mark, or roughly EUR 500 in today's money - NOT inflation-adjusted!) that I was confident it would do a good job and it did. As I wrote early in May, my present goal isn't getting it back to using it for new recordings, but possibly save some of the stuff I still have on cassettes (some of it recorded using dbx, which no tape deck has had for 30 years). But I found that if I buy on CD (ideally "used") all the stuff that I really want to keep from the cassettes, I'll probably still spend less money than what an expert repair would cost. Add to that the fact that Metal and even CrO2 tapes are almost impossible to get these days, I don't think I'll see a revival of analogue recording for me any time soon.
CD is definitely the easy and cheaper option, yesterday I bough a few CD's and Tapes I am embracing both formats currently. I was lucky I found several chrome tapes very cheap in a charity shop, where I live there are a lot of second hand shops where I find great tapes and CD's and low prices.
I have bought tapes from Amazon, like you say they are expensive.
Just bought the retro cassette player I mentioned yesterday, it certainly packs a punch, great sound quality very impressed. It has some weight to it which is often a good sign.
The 1980's really did make the best tech, this machine is awesome.
Edited: It maybe from the 90's two different reviews claim it is from different time periods.
€200 sounds a lot, but I guess a proper, professional cleaning takes a bit of time. You could have fun trying to clean it and get it up and running yourself thought. There are probably videos on Youtube covering everything you need to know.
Design and looks wise it looks like this might be a 90's design. I can remember similar looking decks and CD players at several of my childhood friends. I could be wrong though.
Yeah you are right, it was supposed to have a remote so definitely 90's. Its a great little player, I do have a universal remote I maybe able to program though at moment happy to use it manually.
My late 80's/very early 90's CD player has a remote, so I guess there were cassette decks with remotes in the same era too. Not that I've had much use for the remote though; the CD player has some nice buttons that I prefer to the remote.
Remotes are handy though I like the mechanical functionality of decks and CD players, I have a remote for my double tape deck which I tend to use only for recording as its ideal for play and pause when recording individual tracks.
I almost bought another radio yesterday with feather touch, which is a retro full band radio with touch sensor buttons or something. I had to stop myself as I already have a radio that is full band, I have to stop hoarding lol
https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/res/manuals/3867/38677301M.pdf
Wouldn't mind one of these to play the Bond soundtracks. And one for 8-track too, now that I've collected 8-tracks for each 70's Bond film.