I miss those days
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I loved these things. Never understood how they worked (still don’t) but I didn’t care!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Electromagnetism and a touch of devil-math from the STEM layer of hell, as is with most technology.
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I had an adapter like that from aliexpress because my car didn't have bluetooth.
Those things were awesome. I had an old vehicle that only had an 8 track. My options were to listen to Don't Look Back for the thousandth time or pick one of those up (in the days before ali express) and plug my CD player into it.
I did listen to Don't Look Back a lot.
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Fuck you I'm not THAT old
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Look at that young whippersnapper. I had one for my discman.
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If the car was old enough you could plug a cassette adapter into an 8 track adapter.
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If the car was old enough you could plug a cassette adapter into an 8 track adapter.
Dear god, I had one of these. I was driving a 74 Ford pickup with an 8-track and it was the only way to play my music through the single speaker in the dash. High fidelity.
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You may have missed the protective film on the magnet head. When I had one, it was a night and day difference once I got the protective film off.
It's a bit late to check that but I'm pretty sure i didn't have any protective film there.
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Strange. The quality should be about the best a cassette or aux cable could deliver. They are basically just two electromagnets controlled by the audiosignal.
They are so simple there isn't a lot to do badly.
Yeah it's cassette quality. That's what I'm talking about. It wasn't anywhere near the quality of a direct AUX connection.
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Psshhht. I used to have a microphone that let me SING ON THE RADIO. It literally put me on the FM airwaves. You may have heard some of my stuff.
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Technology Connections has covered how they work.
Technology Connections is going to turn into the XKCD of explainer videos.
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If the car was old enough you could plug a cassette adapter into an 8 track adapter.
Plug... plug it into a zune
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Plug... plug it into a zune
I actually had a Zune. They were pretty nice as far as MP3 players go.
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Psshhht. I used to have a microphone that let me SING ON THE RADIO. It literally put me on the FM airwaves. You may have heard some of my stuff.
HEY GOOD LOOKING I'LL BE BACK TO PICK YOU UP LATER
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If the car was old enough you could plug a cassette adapter into an 8 track adapter.
My best friend in high school had a stereo with an 8-track recorder.
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Those were great. They did a job for everyone that couldn’t afford the latest tech in the car. Now you’re lucky to get a head unit with an Aux plug, much less a CD player.
I drive a 2001 which luckily came with a CD player that was wired to use a 6-disc changer mounted in the trunk. For $50 I got an adapter cable that tricks the unit into thinking my aux device is the 6-disc changer. This worked great until I got my latest phone which doesn't have a fucking headphone jack. I bought an adapter but the top volume level is pitifully low, so I'm back to burning CDs to play in my car.
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I used to make mix tapes by recording mp3s onto cassettes so I could listen to them in my car.
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I have one that is bluetooth to cassette. Unfortunately, it has a lot of artifacts during playback. Opted for a bluetooth transmitter that connects to an empty radio channel? Frequency? Works well.
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I actually had a Zune. They were pretty nice as far as MP3 players go.
Heck, I still use my old Zune. Replaced the battery, hard drive, and screen a couple of years ago and the thing is a beast.
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I have one that is bluetooth to cassette. Unfortunately, it has a lot of artifacts during playback. Opted for a bluetooth transmitter that connects to an empty radio channel? Frequency? Works well.
The bluetooth to FM transmitter works well for you? I've tried them several times over the decades, even the expensive ones seem to suck. Maybe not as much as your bluetooth to cassette, I've never seen one of those for sale or used one.
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Yeah it's cassette quality. That's what I'm talking about. It wasn't anywhere near the quality of a direct AUX connection.
Most of cassettes lack of audio quality isn't actually the quality, it's the tape hiss. Without the tape there's no hiss so they sound basically as good as a straight aux cable. It's basically just a weird connector in the middle of the cable.
