Throwback Thursdays
recoveryone
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I was out in the garage and knock over a stack of old cassettes tapes. Brought them into the house and fired up the Pio CT-M66R and just listen while I wrote out some bills. All the music is old 80's stuff from when I was in the Marines.
Family Room HT 7.2/i]:Vizio Oled55h1 Pioneer Elite SC-LX502 Pioneer Elite BDP 85FD Eversolo DMP A6 Panamax M5300-EXSpeakers Fronts Fluance XF8L Center Polk Audio S35 Side Surrounds Fluance bipolar Rear Surrounds FluanceXF8 Bookshelf Subs SVS PB4000 x2 Living room 2ch: Crown Xli 1500 amp x2, Teac EQ MKII FX Audio X6 Mk II DAC Squeezebox Touch Fluance Signature Tower Speakers Panamax M5100-EXOffice media room:Vizio M50Q6 50" Pioneer Elite VSX LX301 Eversolo DMP-A6 Polkaudio R600 Towers Polkaudio Center R350 Panamax M4300 Monoprice 12" subMaster bedroom:Vizio M55Q7 Pioneer Elite VSX LX302 Pioneer Elite BDP 85FD Squeezebox Touch Fluance Signature Bookshelf fronts, Rears Fluance Signature Bipolar Polk Audio CS10 center Monoprice 12" sub Panamax M5300-EX
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I listen to cassette's often & enjoy it. Most i bought back in the day. I still do record on tape also. Kinda fun & brings me back to the 70/80's era...
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I still remember my first few cassettes. I got Quiet Riot- Metal Health for Christmas in 1983ish along with my first "boom box". My second and third tapes were copies of Motley Crue- Shout at the Devil and ACDC- Back in Black from a friend.
It was always fun trying to tape a song off the radio. Scrambling to hit record, knowing full well you're going to miss the first 5 seconds of the song. And trying to cut it off prior to the DJ talking again.
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I used to have a Teac Z6000 cassette player that I ADORED. It could be tweaked/optimized to any tape used in it by adjusting bias pots on the front. The only thing I could find beautiful enough to replace it was a Teac X2000RBL R2R. Oh, those were the days...
Still remember the system at the time:
Yamaha C85 pre
Yamaha TX-1100 Tuner (I think?)
Soundcraftsmen A5002 amp
AR9Lsi speakers/Infinity RSIII (transitional)
Yamaha PF800 Turntable/Yamaha PX-3 Linear tracking (transitional)Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2 -
I just can't make myself retire my unit. Its so rare (6 cassette changer) with HX Pro and auto cassette sensor to adjust the tape type in use. I originally pick it up back in 91 when I had loads of cassettes that I had made copies of my vinyl. I have one in there now playing the old Prince "Sign of the Times" Album on a Maxell Metal and it is clear as the day I copied it.
The only other unit I really wanted was one of the Nakamichi Dragon units Family Room HT 7.2/i]:Vizio Oled55h1 Pioneer Elite SC-LX502 Pioneer Elite BDP 85FD Eversolo DMP A6 Panamax M5300-EXSpeakers Fronts Fluance XF8L Center Polk Audio S35 Side Surrounds Fluance bipolar Rear Surrounds FluanceXF8 Bookshelf Subs SVS PB4000 x2 Living room 2ch: Crown Xli 1500 amp x2, Teac EQ MKII FX Audio X6 Mk II DAC Squeezebox Touch Fluance Signature Tower Speakers Panamax M5100-EXOffice media room:Vizio M50Q6 50" Pioneer Elite VSX LX301 Eversolo DMP-A6 Polkaudio R600 Towers Polkaudio Center R350 Panamax M4300 Monoprice 12" subMaster bedroom:Vizio M55Q7 Pioneer Elite VSX LX302 Pioneer Elite BDP 85FD Squeezebox Touch Fluance Signature Bookshelf fronts, Rears Fluance Signature Bipolar Polk Audio CS10 center Monoprice 12" sub Panamax M5300-EX -
My first REAL system was built around an AIWA cassette deck in '89-'90. I bought a set of DB Plus 440s (6" Canadian two ways with the poly cell tweeter--also used by Infinity around that time), and a cheap Pioneer integrated of 15 watts x 2 or so, my roommate's girlfriend was going to throw away!
I was in NYC, at the time, so I spent a LOT of time at the Tower Records ANNEX which was FULL of old LPs and cassette tapes at bargain prices. Still have a couple hundred cassettes from that time and the AIWA, which has new belts. As well as a RatShack SCT-33 (probably a rebadged Hitachi).
Within a year I'd bought my first CDP. A Sony.
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you call that a throwback? heh...
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I also could not bring myself to dump my old Denon Cassette deck. It's in the closet "just in case", and every year or so I find another cache of tapes in a box or on a shelf in the closet and go through them. FLASH BACK!Receiver: ONKYO TX-NR929 7.1 AVR 130wpc
Mains: 2x Polk RTA 8TL's
Center: Polk CS245i
Surrounds: 2x Klipsch RS-41ii (because they fit perfectly over the door and window)
Rear Surr: 2x Polk M4a '90
Subwoofer: Speakerlab DAS-SW dual-voice-coil 10" '88 30Hz-150Hz
Subwoofer Amp: ONKYO A-8019 AMP '85 100wpc
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I haven't used mine in years, but it's still sitting on the bottom shelf of my rack! I plugged in the play ICs but not the record ones.Marantz AV-7705 PrePro, Classé 5 channel 200wpc Amp, Oppo 103 BluRay, Rotel RCD-1072 CDP, Sony XBR-49X800E TV, Polk S60 Main Speakers, Polk ES30 Center Channel, Polk S15 Surround Speakers SVS SB12-NSD x2
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I have my old Carver cassette deck taking up space in the closet along with a couple of vhs decks and a few other dinosaurs from days past.My equipment sig felt inadequate and deleted itself.
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Nice looking Sony tape player Mhardy..I picked up a package deal 1.5 years ago & picked up this 1971 Advent 2 cassette player w/dust cover & surprisingly enough it works very well for being 40+ y/o. Not quite as good as my Nakamichi 500 but that one i have to use a pencil on the play button (jerry rig:) till i fix it..
