Cassette Tapes are back!

[1964white]

Do you still own cassettes?

Would you revert back to cassettes as your listening choice?

Out of 10......how does the cassette tape rate as oppose to other listening devices?

What devices are your preferred choice of listening?

[1964white]

Do you still own cassettes?

Some blanks ones hidden away somewhere.

Would you revert back to cassettes as your listening choice?

Definitely not, although easy to store & not space-comsuming the amount of tapes I lost due to being tangled up in the machine put me off the damn things for good.

Out of 10......how does the cassette tape rate as oppose to other listening devices?

4/10

What devices are your preferred choice of listening?

CD's
Streaming in search of new albums to buy! (Spotify & YouTube)

[HarryofOz]

I'm not a sound or music aficionado, so I like what's easiest for me. That is downloading music onto my smart phone. Next I'll go for CDs.

[Ratscoot]

Vinyl for me I still have my Technics stereo from the 80s with a turn table sounds so much sweeter. I literally have 100s of tapes mainly bought when I was in Saudi but I never listen to them, big concern about them spooling

[Leeds1000]

Do you still own cassettes?

None these days. Sold most of them on Wakey Market back in the day.

Would you revert back to cassettes as your listening choice?

Nar. The thought of having a big ugly tape deck back in the house would upset the other half. She has put up with all sizes of speakers down the years. We all remember using a pen to wind the film back in when it got twisted.

Out of 10......how does the cassette tape rate as oppose to other listening devices?

On some Cassettes you could not get rid of that horrible hiss no matter how many buttons pressed. 3/10

What devices are your preferred choice of listening?

Nearly all music goes through my headphones my PC these days. Its just easier and all in one place. I have a amp but rarely use it.

[whiteswan]

Vinyl for me I still have my Technics stereo from the 80s with a turn table sounds so much sweeter. I literally have 100s of tapes mainly bought when I was in Saudi but I never listen to them, big concern about them spooling

I have a load of Saudi tapes as well Ratscoot. Where abouts were you in Saudi?

[The Subhuman]

Do you still own cassettes?

Yes, about 250 talking books/radio plays and around 600 music. Still all displayed

Would you revert back to cassettes as your listening choice?

Not really, I still own both a portable cassette player/boom box, which I use at work, and a hi-fi separate which currently isn't hooked up

Out of 10......how does the cassette tape rate as oppose to other listening devices?

Now it would be about a 4, then a 9. You simply couldn't edit Vinyl nor play it in your car.

What devices are your preferred choice of listening?

CD or vinyl through Marantz separates and Mission floor standing speakers and loud. Do also use headphones via laptop .

[1964white]

CD or vinyl through Marantz separates and Mission floor standing speakers and loud. Do also use headphones via laptop .

Yes I use a decent set of headphones when listening on my laptop

[Chilli D]

Horrible things, binned mine years ago and replaced them with CD's.
I remember being on holiday in Gt Yarmouth in 1982 with my mates and lugging about a massive ghetto blaster all day as we walked up and down the promenade trying to impress girls.

[Smudge3920]

Do you still own cassettes?
Not a one, hated them for all the reasons already stated.

Would you revert back to cassettes as your listening choice?
Not a chance.

Out of 10......how does the cassette tape rate as oppose to other listening devices?
2/10

What devices are your preferred choice of listening?
In the home Vynil, recently replaced/upgraded my turn table, amp and speakers...travelling CD in the vehicles

[1964white]

Horrible things, binned mine years ago and replaced them with CD's.
I remember being on holiday in Gt Yarmouth in 1982 with my mates and lugging about a massive ghetto blaster all day as we walked up and down the promenade trying to impress girls.

Did it work Chilli?

[Norm]

I wouldn't have cassettes back at any price - awful things, maybe an improvement on vinyl for convenience but not for sound.

We're currently switching all our DVDs to SSD so we can bring them back to England.

[Gandalf]

Horrible things, but very handy at the time. Transferred most of mine to digital before binning them. Quality was so bad that I deleted them and replaced the ones I wanted to keep with better digital copies.

I have all my music on my phone and use bluetooth in the car. Very rare that I buy new music now, although I still have to replace some of my old vinyl and CD's, which were sold to help fund my first house purchase.

I must have spent a fortune, going from Vinyl > Cassette > CD > Digital, but it is digital all the way for me now, especially as sound quality no longer matters so much to me as I'm going a bit mutt and jeff.

[Ratscoot]

I have a load of Saudi tapes as well Ratscoot. Where abouts were you in Saudi?

Hi Swan

I was at King Khalid Airbase, Kamish Mushait 1990-91, where were you and when?

[Chilli D]

Did it work Chilli?

Unfortunately not.
In this case size didn't matter...

[1964white]

Unfortunately not.
In this case size didn't matter...

I had a similar experience on Cleethorpes beach at the tender age of 14yo

[whiteswan]

Hi Swan

I was at King Khalid Airbase, Kamish Mushait 1990-91, where were you and when?

I was in Riyadh, working at the Riyadh military Hospital 1980-92 (Yes 12 years!) working in the dental unit
It was really exciting to go down the Souks and cassette shops. That was pretty much all we had most of the time, our 747 cassettes

[Ratscoot]

I was in Riyadh, working at the Riyadh military Hospital 1980-92 (Yes 12 years!) working in the dental unit
It was really exciting to go down the Souks and cassette shops. That was pretty much all we had most of the time, our 747 cassettes

Hi Swan, apart from playing football that’s pretty much all we did

[hector]

Hi Swan, apart from playing football that’s pretty much all we did

bloody loafing crabs

[whiteswan]

bloody loafing crabs

OY! Cheeky so and so

Buzz off!