Cassettes still rock!

"Coincidence? I found Pink Floyd The Wall, Green Day Dookie and French version of Catch Bull ..."

Coincidence? I take care of Dookie from time to time. She is a neighbor’s little dog. Sweet! No bull.

The walkman was able to provide music freedom for the first time, so good. The good home tape decks like Teac, Nak, Revox, were superb for making music for me to play on my car Nakamichi cassette player. They made a few models in the mid eighties that were high priced but very good sounding when paired with ads speakers! Oh the days! I just loved recording my music from albums I owned onto tape. My turntable NOW is way better than the  model I recorded from back then, but I used a very good cartridge.   

Your experience makes me want to hear the old system in my Opel GT.  TeeHee  It did record from FM.

I have about 1100 cassettes home recorded mostly from the mid-70s thru the early 90s.  I play them on a Nakamichi CR7-A and BX 300, both rebuilt and serviced by Willy Hermann. Over the last 2 years, I have re-recorded on TDK MA, SA-X and HX-S tapes the beautiful Blue Note vinyl jazz reissues and they sound fantastic.  These particular cassettes were originally purchased from the early 80s thru the early 90s.  They have been stored well but it is stunning how great they sound after all these years.  While I love showing off my vinyl on a nice system, I blow the audience away with the beautiful NAKs.  Cassettes are far from dead.  

There is some enterprising person on eBay who sells a pack of those little felt square spacers that sometimes fall off after 30 years or so and must replaced. The little felt squares are adhesive backed which is a relief. 🤗