What did you last listen to on cassette format (or does nobody do this anymore) ?

its funny you ask as I am just trying to sell a load of my old cassettes on Ebay as I dont really want to just throw them away, I'd rather someone still got some enjoyment out of them.
TBH when I advertised about 30 cassettes seperately a couple of months back, only about 7 sold.
I think the people that buy them are people collecting old copies of their favourite tracks or people that see CD as something too complicated or expensive, and yes there are people like that
I think my old Yamaha KX500 deck is sitting in my flat in Frankfurt? with a cheapy tannoy/technics seperates system to keep the tenants amused.
If anyone wants any free cassettes then let me know

John

I've thrown away all the cassettes except for Unexpurgated - The Very Best of Lenny Bruce, not that I've got anything to play it on anymore, but it has great sentimental value.

Mmm, I think it was something by Abba... oh well.

Yesterday and today, most days in fact.

Yesterday it was a complilation of Matthew Dear tracks from Leave Luck to Heaven and EP1 and EP2.

Today it was a transcription of the Welcome to Violence sampler.

DS

OTD - Lindstrom - I feel space

Listened to Mary Chapin Carpenter on cassette today in the car.

Anna Gourari playing Chopin in Mainz - a live recording the local radio station sent to me on request a couple of months ago.

Have to admit that I listened to the cassette only ONCE: When I transferred it to the PC for denoising and CD burning...

cheers
Stefan

I sometimes listen to tapes still although any I listened to a lot I've now converted to MP3. Shame really but its not exactly user friendly is it. I've got a really nice Sony Q series tape deck too which I love. I've even disconnected the DIN plug from my preamp now and only connect it when required.

I often bought tape rather than Cd at one point in my life (mid-eighties). Its amazing how some of those titles on CD now sell for silly money whereas the cassette version isn't worth the plastic its made out of

Jonathan

Lots of old audio books and BBC comedy shows (Steptoe, Hancock, Round the Horne) - great memories and perfect in the car. Had to stop listening in bed as laughter kept waking the missus

Most recently, I listened to a recording I'd made of 'Madman Across The Water' by Elton John, backed with 'Yes' by Morphine. I played the tape in my van as I don't have (or want) a cd player in there, and I still like putting together compilations for home listening when I'm not in the same room as the stereo. I picked up a Sony TCK-611S from ebay for about £20.00 and have been having loads of fun with it - sounds great, works well, and decent TDK SA-90 tapes are cheap to buy (59p from Richers).

Lots of charities grateful for old cassettes (RNIB etc ...).

I loved cassettes because it was possible to record including from mic onto them portably ( I know that .mp3 etc machines now allow/encourage this). Although I have a few loved machines/tapes left, CDR etc has archived them.

Apart from Naks/Sony Walkmen Pro etc, cheap Nicam Stereo VCRs are quite good at 'off air' recording for later digitising.

Lots of audio comix gave away blank cassettes - still prefer cheap TDK SA.

I used to lust after Akai GX decks, then Naks till they became not so good.

I thought I was the last living "dinosaurus" still listening to cassettes

Well, ist seems I'm not
I have a LARGE collection of tapes that I'm slowly replacing with CD's and LP's, those that haven't been replaced yet are rolling occasionally.
Mostly I listen to tapes when driving my car. Since I don't have a standalone CD burner, I make copies of LPs to tapes which are then driving with me in my car... and they will continue to be good passangers until i get a car CD changer and a standalone CD burner for my rack...

Bostjan

Today I listened to a tape of Various Artists - Digital Disco in the car. Luomo, Akufen, Decomposed Subsonic etc.

DS

ITCCP - Various Artists - Digital Disco

Errrrr.

We Are Frank Chickens by Frank Chickens.

Mad-crazy-cool Japanese pair of girls

Anyone got anything nuttier that's good fun to listen to?

quote:

Originally posted by Huwge:
Lots of old audio books and BBC comedy shows (Steptoe, Hancock, Round the Horne) - great memories and perfect in the car. Had to stop listening in bed as laughter kept waking the missus

Forgett about it in your new car, Huw !

cheers
Stefan

not long now

My Nakamichi 680Z has given me great service and still serves.
I have quite a lot od stuff on tape, lots of Jazz stuff ike Spyro, Mozzoforte, Cobham Hancock etcI transferred from Vinyl to Casette for convenience using TDK & Maxell Metal Tapes
Still sound wonderful
Jag

Pink Floyd's Pulse concert.......

Still waiting for the dvd release.....before Christmas maybe......pigs might fly......no pun intended......

Don´t remember. Well, I keep my Casette deck but haven´t used it for the last ca. three years, as I have transferred the contents of my tapes to CD.

I have a collection of about 600-700 cassettes. Most of the pre-recorded ones are BBC audiobooks/comedy shows, many of which get regular airings on my Nak Dragon.

I also have a few [excellent] cassette-only (ie not released on LP or CD) albums from the 1980s which I still listen to; then there are all the bootleg tapes I recorded or collected.

I still use the Dragon to make recordings - I have a friend who travels a lot as part of her job and she only has a tape machine in her car so I'm always making compilations for her.

Properly calibrated and using MA-XG tapes, the Dragon still equals if not outperforms DAT and CD IMHO so I sometimes use it to make off-air recordings (wish I had a better tuner!).

BTW, the best-sounding pre-recorded cassette I have ever heard is the tape of Pink Floyd's "Pulse" which includes the 20-miute 'soundscape' the group used to play before their concerts - NOT available anywhere else. It sounds absolutely excellent, the atmospherics on 'Sine On' are rendered particularly well...

Long live the humble cassette!


Kevin

Couple phone messages on my answering machine.

I have not used my Nakamichi 660ZX for a while.

Haim

My 84 y/o Dad still records nightly off the air with his Nakamichi. My psychologist sister says he has a "collector" mentality, having stockpiled nearly 3000 cassettes of music he has taped through the years. Before the cassette era, he recorded to reel to reel. He keeps everything carefully cataloged on his PC and can sort by composer, piece, performer, date recorded, etc. If a particular performance of a particular piece should come up in conversation, he can put his hands on the cassette with that performance in a matter of moments and have it playing soon thereafter. It is obviously something that gives him pleasure and keeps his mind occupied.

Norman

Your dad sounds cool I wish I was that organised.

Most of my tapes are leftovers copied from CD for the days PD (pre-discman!), but I have a few compilations I made up (including some infamous late 80s off-Radio1-chart-show ones when I was a school kid. Funnily enough, one of these was almost the whole chart from the day the Berlin Wall came down, but I digress.

The last cassette I played was Suede's "Stay together" single, as the "b-side" is excellent. A bit noise pumpy, but the Nak makes the best of it.

The last *tape* I played though was Chic's "C'est chic" on 8track cartridge last night, as I decided to warm my ancient Akai CR81D up.

This was after a few others including a couple of dIRE sTRAITS ones and, er, the "Saturday night fever" soundtrack. Oh, and my copy of Bowie's "Hunky dory" is far superior to any of the CD issues.

The 8track deck is older than I am! Anyway, it reminds me why I like tape - nice phat analog bass. And the curious thing is that my Jimi Hendrix "Live at the Isle of Whyte" 8track is the clearest-sounding item in my entire collection of any format...

Bizarre but true.

...now if anyone can tell me where I can get sensing foil so that darned "Hunky Dory" will go across tracks properly at end of track, I'd love to hear from you. The home-made one I made out of a chewing gum foil wrapper and superglue's gone "off" since 1998...