My son bought a cassette deck!

[audio_tony]

I still have all of the cassettes I recorded in the late 70's through to the late 90's.

My later (especially post '85) recordings still sound really good.

I had a Technics RS-B18 deck which I spent a lot of time modifying, including fitting a really good REC/PB head.

I never used Dolby, but the Technics mentioned above did have DBX and I used that with a few tapes, however many of the tapes were for use in the car so I didn't make a great deal of use of it.

With regard to Dolby - I found that one could never get reliable results - sure, the hiss was reduced, but compatibility between decks (even well calibrated ones) was always a bit hit and miss, with tapes either sounding dull, or slight pumping effects amongst other things.

Pre-recorded tapes encoded with Dolby never sounded right.

I still have a Technics deck (this time an RS-B605 which has DBX) although it's only used very rarely these days. Usually when I fancy listening to one of my old tapes that I don't yet have on CD.

 

[Joe Smith]

OK, so I am usually a "to each his own" kind of guy. But I stumbled yesterday on this thread over at Tapeheads regarding a cassette/DAT/DVD collection. Anyone who wants to feel better about their audio spending and/or hoarding, have a look - and weep. Some serious mental illness going on here. I cannot imagine what he has spent and is obviously continuing to spend to amass this stuff. I love cassette and enjoy keeping several working decks in play. But this is something very, very different.

Makes a $360,000 turntable and $5,000 power cables look almost reasonable!

 

[watchnerd]

OK, so I am usually a "to each his own" kind of guy. But I stumbled yesterday on this thread over at Tapeheads regarding a cassette/DAT/DVD collection. Anyone who wants to feel better about their audio spending and/or hoarding, have a look - and weep. Some serious mental illness going on here. I cannot imagine what he has spent and is obviously continuing to spend to amass this stuff. I love cassette and enjoy keeping several working decks in play. But this is something very, very different.

Makes a $360,000 turntable and $5,000 power cables look almost reasonable!

Why should I be weeping?

Looks pretty cool to me.

 

[ThatM1key]

OK, so I am usually a "to each his own" kind of guy. But I stumbled yesterday on this thread over at Tapeheads regarding a cassette/DAT/DVD collection. Anyone who wants to feel better about their audio spending and/or hoarding, have a look - and weep. Some serious mental illness going on here. I cannot imagine what he has spent and is obviously continuing to spend to amass this stuff. I love cassette and enjoy keeping several working decks in play. But this is something very, very different.

Makes a $360,000 turntable and $5,000 power cables look almost reasonable!

I mean its excessive but it's not bad. We all collect stuff that is considered a waste of space, time and money to others and some people even think Jay Leno's car collection is a waste. It's there own interactive museums and we should at least respect the effort even if we don't understand why.

Chevy HHR Collection:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/RoastMyCar/comments/14qv777

 

[Joe Smith]

"It's too much, man." -Bart Simpson

 

[Bernard23]

I still have one of these, but apparently they are a bit dogsh1te, the mechanism is the TCM190 which is as unreliable as the UK rail service. I barely used it after buying it new for the price of a bag of deluxe chips, now I know why. It hasn't been used in over a decade, just sits in my rack for aesthetic reasons. I may attach a plug and see if still works, but I have to say from memory it was close to the original vinyl recording I made from my LP12; certainly way closer to anything I'd owned or used before.

However, my early days of hifi and music was centred around this: It was an absolute tape chomper, a C90 was OK from a reputable brand, but we never had much cash as kids so Boots C120s were the default choice, initially anyway, but it chewed several collections to death as I recall.