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Yo - anybody want these things?
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Yo - anybody want these things?
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:31:10 -0500, wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:09:50 GMT, Steve wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:51:24 -0500, Boater wrote: Steve wrote: On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:53:37 -0500, wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:35:17 -0800, "Calif Bill" wrote: 8 tracks? I have a whole passel of 'em. Cleaned them out of the mother-in-laws apartment in the spring. I meant to catalogue and list them on Kijiji or Craigs List What a piece of crap design. The design was excellent, it was the market driven quality that gave them a bad reputation. I have a genuine Lear 8 track cartridge that has literally thousands of hours on it. It was elevator music in an office. There were also a lot of bad machines out there. The fact that radio stations used "carts" that were the same basic design for decades supports the strength of the design. Radio station carts were only the length of the commercial, 30, 60 seconds, whatever. They didn't have to have a rewind. Have you ever tried to rewind an 8-track to get to some part of a song you like again, or to get to the song before the one you're listening to? Also, you have a choice of either having a blank spot at the end of a song before the next one waiting for the end of the tape for the track to change *or* it would just change tracks in the middle of a song. Usually the latter. And I won't even talk about jams. What a piece of crap design. And it's the design, not the equipment. It's fine for carts. Crap for consumer audio media. Casette tape was a huge improvement. Steve Was everything in life that tough for you, Steve? What a whiner. Not at all. As I said, casette tapes were much better and served me very well for decades. Huge improvement over 8-track. Steve I think cost was the real reason 8 track died (a decent blank 8 track cost about 3 times what a cassette cost) but that is just my opinion. I did have 2 recorders and made my own. If I used a good cartridge they would last forever and were pretty much indestructible. Cheap cartridges might not last a week. I guess this is just a "Ginger/Maryanne" discussion. There is no right answer, only opinion. I guess. But I think if you talk to people who were audiophiles in that era, you'd find you're one of the only ones who preferred 8-track to casette. lol I even used casettes on my boat. Couldn't do that very long with an 8-track. The humidity would cause the tape to jam because it all had to slide past eachother instead of being wound on a hub. Steve |
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