I miss those days
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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.
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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.
What issues have you had? Mine connects fine without issue and the quality is ok at best but my car speakers aren't exactly preem. My antenna is even broken off and has a hard time catching regular stations but no issues with my transmitter nor with the bluetooth part of it.
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What issues have you had? Mine connects fine without issue and the quality is ok at best but my car speakers aren't exactly preem. My antenna is even broken off and has a hard time catching regular stations but no issues with my transmitter nor with the bluetooth part of it.
There's always some degree of background static, hissing, humming, etc, no matter what channels I tried tuning them to. I don't expect perfectly clear audio while using an adapter, but those tuner types were always unacceptably bad for that any time I've tried them.
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I used to have one that would broadcast a short-range radio station that you would tune the car radio to. You’d have to make sure its frequency was far from an actual radio station or you’d get crosstalk. On long road trips you’d have to keep adjusting it.
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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.
Sounds like an issue with your cassette deck. You should definitely be getting better audio quality with a cassette adapter, mine sounds better than a normal cassette tape. Every radio frequency transmitter I have ever tried has had severe artifacting on the high end (treble), especially prevalent on "S" sounds; they come out really static-y. At any rate, your better off doing literally anything else than repairing your cassette deck if it's cooked, but its worth a go to try a standard aux cord cassette since they're under $10.
I've actually opted to record my playlists onto cassette tapes, and I wound up using these more than the aux adapter.
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I actually had a Zune. They were pretty nice as far as MP3 players go.
Yeah, they were actually pretty ahead of their time. It was before people had become accustomed to music subscriptions, so that scared a lot of people away. But the fact that it would just automatically sync with your library, and you could download whatever songs you wanted for offline play in the car… It was groundbreaking at the time. Plus it had a built-in FM receiver, so you could listen to the radio while on the go too.
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So the thing about these is they always work unless you physically damage it in a completely obvious way and then you get another $5 adapter. You know unlike figuring out how to make your phone talk to a stupid car.
