unforentaly, it was damaging the cassette: before it eats it, it will make a crunching sound, which results in a crease.

Right.

Anytime a cassette gets eaten; its prone to damage, period.

What I'm saying is; it ate one tape and you're ready to throw it away. Have you cleaned it? Have you wiped the capstan and pinch roller with isopropyl?

Just because it creased the tape it ate doesn't mean it's defective. It means its dirty.

You're also blaming the deck without taking in to consideration that tapes themselves get dirty and sticky. I bet if you cleaned that deck completely; it would stop eating tapes.

Basically; you're replacing the entire car because it got mud on it; assuming its going to have larger mechanical problems.

However, people with your mentality have given me high-end decks because it ate a tape; it also hadn't been cleaned in 20 years. A good cleaning and it never ate another tape.

well, i'm using a jvc td-w107, and after cleaning the deck with the wet head cleaner and solution, not much help. heard the crunching sound not long after. luckly i removed the tape. i'm still planning to get a better tape deck.

Even my old en cheap Sharp RT-10 cassettedeck never gave any problem....

this is what happened.


and



this tape was never like that before!

In the movie 2010 Roy Scheider tells his fellow scientists after they awaken from hyper sleep that (and I'm paraphrasing), everything they need to know is on cassette. I guess that's when the comeback started.

You can get a sealed TDK MA-XG on ebay but they usually go around $75 to $100 each.

Quite a few pre-recorded DCCs on Ebay at the moment:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DCC-digitale- ... 43c5a91ad4

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DCC-digitale- ... 43c5a918c0

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DCC-digitale- ... 43c5a91cec

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DCC-digitale- ... 43c5a92884

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DCC-digitale- ... 43c5a92012

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DCC-digitale- ... 43c5a91ebd

etc

Blanks too:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/9-x-Brand-New ... 2ecdecf321

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-Philips-DCC ... 43c4c5d191

I actually found a few DCC tapes on Ebay as well and I am mulling buying a deck just for the novelty. It's supposed to have better quality than MD (MD SP has a bitrate of 292kbps, DCC is 384kbps.)

There is a seller on CL within driving distance selling a deck with tapes, and there's one on the shelf of a trading post near me that has one (looks a little beat up tho.)

As childs, my brother and i made fun of the fact that in our vicinity none of our acquaintances, friends, family, neighbours cleaned their tapedecks heads and rollers. Not one of them!
(With muddy fluttery sound and eventually tape sla as outcome)
Most people even didn't know that that was advisable to do after a while.

Even a lesser known fact is to have to demagnetize...
There were cassettes for that or a stick you had to wave around the parts of the r2r or k7 deck.

No offense tasuke, you have beautiful looking gear but you seriously need wire management. Get some zip ties or fill those openings so the mess behind them doesn't show.

oh, i've addressed that since...

So here's an interesting YT video on the pros and cons of the different Dolby NRs and types/biases of the old compact cassette . . .

Cassettes - Better than you don't remember

remember recording analog audio cassettes from vinyl and the quality was astonishing! ...Walkmans were very portable too!

Another Compact Cassette related video from TechMoan. This time reviewing a new piece of tech from Japan--a CD/Cassette combo "portable" (quotes because while it has a handle for carrying around, there is no option to power it via batteries!!) Supposedly this thing has a "High Res Audio" function, that supposedly "upconverts" low quality audio like cassettes to higher quality.

Toshiba Aurex "Hi-Res Cassette Deck"

Also interesting because he includes use of the legendary Nakamichi Dragon in this vid.

found this fairly well-made piece at that local rummage sale i attend, held every month or three, paid about a dollar or so.

it's well made, ant it seems to work perfectly. only issue is that it is MONO only, but is definitely Hi-Fi MONO, even out of the internal speaker.

no NAKAMICHI DRAGON-killer by any measure, but probably among the highest-performance Monophonic "Dictation" cassette recorders ever made,
and a worthy addition to my Compact Cassette collection, PIONEER or otherwise...

I still have my Pioneer, CT-S800, three head deck but it’s in storage at the moment. Just before I stored it, the belts were all getting stretched and I had an issue with the chrome tape selector switch having intermittent issues (might be a bad switch or hopefully just a cold solder).

Anyway, I was reading how some people were recording their SACD’s to tape and was intrigued about it. I already ordered new belts and I will be pulling the old girl out of retirement soon to get it working again.

I've been seriously interested in getting a good DAT setup. To me that is the ultimate for mixtapes, theoretically better than CD quality (as opposed to Hi-MD, which I had and was very very good but only equal to CD quality on paper and in reality), DAT has good ol walkmans with LCD backlit, clothes clippable remotes. The good old stuff and yes dubbing my SACDs to DAT would be very interesting.

Julien, please don't post links to good DAT walkman auctions here. Thanks!!!