Cassette tapes don't last forever

[legrandefromage]

I've got a couple of decent cassette decks available...

 

[JohnH]

How long has the tape deck been down from the loft? There may be moisture that's not evaporated yet that's affecting the performance too.

I saved a deck from the tip a couple of years back that nearly went straight back there but when I tested it again after 3 weeks in the house, it worked fine.

The deck's been sat on the top of a bedroom wardrobe. It's the tapes that may have been left in a wooden box in the garage for some length of time....

 

[JohnH]

But my oldest cassette- David Bowies Heroes from 1978 or thereabouts - plays as good today as I ever remember it.

I've dug this thread up because I've just found a Sony CHF60 dating from somewhere between 1978 and 1981, and to my disbelief, it plays really well! Pity about the Huey Lewis album that's recorded on it... :roll:

I was looking through my cassettes and finding blank tapes that were considered rather good quality back-in-the-day; TDK SA, Sony UX, etc. Then it occurred to me that all of that 'advanced' technology -- chrome tape coatings, metal tape coatings, Dolby 'B' and 'C' noise reduction, XDR -- all of it has been consigned to history. The MP3 player has made it all completely irrelevant.

Perhaps I'm being soppy and sentimental, but that thought made me a bit sad.

 

[Iwasgoodonce]

My twins found some cassettes at my mum and dad's house. One said, "Oh look, its a baby video." The other said, "We saw some of them in a museum, do you remember?"

My mum was not impressed!
We have a Yamaha KX-393 that has been used maybe five times in the last 10 years.

 

[Skeelsie]

Just ordered a couple of TDK-MA EX's from China to get the Nakamichi singing again.

 

[JohnH]

My twins found some cassettes at my mum and dad's house. One said, "Oh look, its a baby video." The other said, "We saw some of them in a museum, do you remember?"

My mum was not impressed!

My friend's stepkid pointed to the cassette deck on her hi-fi and said "So..... what do you put in there?". It just makes you feel rather old... :?

We have a Yamaha KX-393 that has been used maybe five times in the last 10 years.

I can believe it. And you might as well keep it, because they're fetching peanuts on eBay.... http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=yamaha+kx+393

 

[JohnH]

Just ordered a couple of TDK-MA EX's from China to get the Nakamichi singing again.

Wow, I hadn't heard of MA EXs, so I had to go and look them up...
http://vintagecassettes.com/tdk/tdk_fil ... dk_98j.htm