| Author | Message | ||
     Pwnzor |
My van had just the AM/FM head unit forever... until I found this stock Ford tape deck on Craigslist. Plugged it in, and away we go! | ||
| Syonyk |
My Subaru has a tape deck. I just put an adapter in if I want to feed music off my phone. I'd upgrade it, but the stock unit has weather band, and I really, really like that when I'm doing long trips through terrible weather. | ||
| 12x9sl |
I wish my truck had a tape deck. I have some great 80's tapes I'd love to listen to in the truck. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
80 Ford Pinto wagon with AM/FM,8 track,4 speakers.........doesn't rattle the windows,but sounds great! Who ran a reverb unit?............me,62 Mercury Monterey with AM radio.  | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
I think I have one of the last few models with tape decks. It's an 04. My wife's 01 has one as well. I use it for cassette adapter. All the new ones now have an "AUX" port. | ||
| Svh |
Our 06 Yukon Denali rocks a tape deck. Haven't used it yet. Need to find my old cassettes. | ||
| Geforce |
Well, I expect the music industry to switch over entirely to online sales, or convert to thumb-drive like flash module of memory that you just plug into the console and play. Discs are...well kinda useless for storing music now a days...and so are cassettes. | ||
| Svh |
The major music industry announced just a few weeks ago that CD's will be phased out beginning at the end of 2012. Digital is the future for sure | ||
| Nik |
I buy most of my music on Vinyl. But yes I rock a cassette deck in my cars and use them for actual cassettes. There's some gems to be had at used record shops. | ||
| Slaughter |
I used to seek out direct-to-disc originals. Still might. Collected quite a few. Even Mannheim Steamroller before they were known much outside of college circles. Coolest LA record store until closing in the 70s was Licorice Pizza  | ||
| Ourdee |
2002 wrangler. Came with am/fm tape. I've got a fake cassette with an 1/8 inch stereo jack. I plug it into my phone and listen to pandora. | ||
| Boliver |
OH the days of listening to stretched out tapes...I remember when the cassette was the "new thing" to have. Then it was a big deal when auto reverse came out. Oh and who could forget the long play 90 minute tapes that stretched even worse... I know there are some old timers on here who remember that. BTW my 1997 cage has a factory cassette tape deck. I have no idea if it works though. | ||
| Guell |
Lexus still puts a tape deck in most of their cars | ||
| Pwnzor |
I've never had a problem with stretched tapes. Sure, I've had the occasional tape get "eaten" and totally destroyed... but every tape I own is at minimum 20 years old except for the few I bought when Tower records was closing down. Hell, I still play my dad's old reel to reel tapes and they sound great.  | ||
| Danger_dave |
>>I used to seek out direct-to-disc originals.<< I've still got Dark Side of the Moon and a few others. Nothin' to play it on though. My Jeep has a tape player, but I ditched tapes years ago too. Now have one of those dummy cassettes that plugs in an iPod. Playlist rulez. | ||
| Fahren |
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| Court |
That's funny . . . . the pencil and the cassette. And you're right . . they will NEVER know. In fact, I doubt many here would make the connection. | ||
| Kyrocket |
That's hilarious, I just used a pencil to get to the end of my tape last week. Our home Kenwood cassette deck won't rew. or ff. on either side (double cassette player) All three of our vehicles rock cassettes and I listen to mine quite often. I also have a huge collection of vinyl. When I take my daughter to academic club all the kids are listening to their i-pods, I told her I was taking my first walkman with me next time to embarrass her. It's the size of a brick. EDIT: BTW love the Cool J cassette. You really need to rock that with a boom box on the shoulder though. (Message edited by Kyrocket on November 14, 2011) | ||
| 86129squids |
Hahaha- I remember working in a prep kitchen, got in the habit (HAD to actually) of bringing my portable cassette/AM/FM deck in with my headphones, just so I'd not have to listen to the horrible classic rawkk they'd always play there- one day I was listening to the local PBS station playing some jazz/blues, it was so good I ended up recording the program- yep, my deck could record too! (Used that a lot when I couldn't keep my eyes open during a lecture...) I've still got a bunch of cassettes- even the Shemp Meditation Tape!  This thread may cause Froggy's head to explode, it's so archaic... | ||
| Ltbuell |
I've got a lot of vinyl too and an awful lot of cassettes(my'98 GMC truck has a am/fm cassette w/cd player,but i play mostly cassettes as they have jazz on them)that i listen to mostly as many jazz stations are no more  .A lot of my vinyl and cassettes are of music that they don't reproduce anymore so i have to occasionally rerecord from vinyl to cassette(and its getting harder and harder to find blank cassette tapes).Oh and yes i right away made the connection with the cassette and the pencil(i've had to on occasion use my pinkie finger to do some "winding" when a "writing instrument" wasn't to be found..even used a screwdriver.It will work!).Just ziptab,like the house(way cool looking).Pwnzor,i do remember the "reel to reels" and use to use them a lot(your dad's got a nice setup)and whats with the book"Second Luckiest Pilot" about?(i'm really big into that military stuff). Slaughter,i use to go to Berkeley and many of the old record shops there and cruise the isles for vinyl back in the 60's through the 80's.Even in the 80's it was like a time warp to be in them as there was so much way cool "stuff" and VINYL there and cassettes up the wazoo.LT | ||
| Sparky |
Our newest family car, '03 Saturn, has a cassette/CD/AM/FM combo unit in it but the '05 Vette just has a CD/DVD-Nav/AM/FM. So to play tunes from the iPod I've gotta use a cassette adapter for the Ion and a FM transmitter in the Vette. All is relatively good. There are some hacks to add an audio input jack to the Vette but I don't want to go there. Although my music collection goes back to the early 60s, I'm left with an eclectic assortment of reel to reel tapes, vinyl, cassettes, 8-track cartridges and some special 4-track tapes (that preceded 8-track). And, yes, I was into instrumental rock and surf-rock back then (much moreso nowadays). The 4-track tapes were custom recorded by a guy from Mar Vista, CA who had a studio, Ross Stereo, just for recording his unique one-off idea of recording 4 tracks of mono onto the 4-track cartridges prevalent to that era. The result was that by manipulating two toggle switches on the tape unit, which he'd modify for switches, one could have twice the music on a cartridge. The effect is similar to 8-track units so that one could select 4 tracks of music at a time but, of course, in mono not stereo. I had a home Autostereo 4-track player for these tapes and a Ross modified Autostereo player in the car with a Vibrasonic reverb unit (remember those?) piped to the back speaker. I was styling! | ||
| Pwnzor |
Pwnzor,i do remember the "reel to reels" and use to use them a lot(your dad's got a nice setup)and whats with the book"Second Luckiest Pilot" about?(i'm really big into that military stuff). That reel to reel used to be my dad's, but it is now one of my most prized possessions. The Second Luckiest Pilot and Stand Well Clear are books written by Lt Col Donald K Tooker about his personal experiences in military aviation. He was a patient of my ex wife at an oncology clinic a few years ago, and full of fascinating stories. He has since passed away. He gave me those signed copies and you can tell by where I keep them that they are also highly treasured. | ||
| Brumbear |
2003 Ram van casette cd am fm Rockin it!!!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQAlOjzVmjs&feature =related | ||
| F22raptor |
I have a Digital, MP-3, 8 track tape player that Apple test marketed in 1981.... | ||
| Froggy |
Lost me on that one. If I had to take a gander, I would say the pencil is used to defeat copy protection. Isn't there come kind of sensor that can be fooled? You can use a Sharpie to defeat protections on some CDs. It also appears that the pencil is roughly the same dimension as the spool holes, and may be possible to use it to advance or rewind the tape. | ||
| Satori |
Awsome! froggy got it on the second try!. thats actually impressive.. no Froggy that is definately not a put down.. | ||
| Svh |
It also appears that the pencil is roughly the same dimension as the spool holes, and may be possible to use it to advance or rewind the tape. That is the correct answer. Now if there was scotch tape in the picture the first guess would have been correct. | ||
| Reindog |
There are probably youngstigators who don't even know what a wooden pencil or a cassette tape is. Not to worry though, kids today will soon encounter freshly minted kids who will have never heard of an iPOD or Facebook. | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
I've had a Yamaha K2000 since I was a teenager  | ||
| Brumbear |
He said copyright protection. That was called putting the tape you made in a letter mailed to yourself and leaving it sealed. Then you have a dated proof of when you produced it should anyone steal your jams!!!!! |
