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13th Dec 2022, 7:20 am | #41 |
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Re: A blast from the 1980s...
There's four cassette players shown in that advert. Two examples have survived long enough for a contemporary photo. Does anyone still have one of the other two? I get the feeling the other two (stereo and mono versions) would have been less popular?
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28th Dec 2022, 1:50 am | #42 |
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Re: A blast from the 1980s...
The player in the 1st image is completely Mickey Mouse - total crap with no rewind or indeed a supply spindle, just a plastic post for the cassette tape to use it as a hub! Really nasty machines sprang up everywhere all using the same awful mech, no FF just play & FF achieved by retracting the pinch roller from the capstan so the tape freewheeled forward at a crawl! The beginning of the end of the golden age of boomboxes & walkmans.....All heavily cloned & sold under umpteen names sometimes with a horrid tuner section thrown in for a few quid! Try listening to some piano music on one of these especially the sustained notes, you will cringe they really are that bad! The early one I posted is all metal with a metal cassette mech & all tape transport controls! Metal flywheel instead of plastic!! I could go on about how rubbish they were all those later generic stereo's I hate them! All the other machines in the other advert are OK, all generic & above average build quality! Note the model I have is still on sale in the other advert..........
Here is mine working (Before I learnt how to capture the audio better) and poor lighting too!! We live & learn that is never ending! https://1drv.ms/v/s!AtEYKw-3GKK-gbhp...cD3Mw?e=FAo6zg |
28th Dec 2022, 11:26 am | #43 | |
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Re: A blast from the 1980s...
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Certainly Summer 1983 or later, as that's when the retail prices dropped to £99.95/£129.95
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28th Dec 2022, 12:46 pm | #44 | |
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