keep it steady? did you neglect to install the shock absorbing plate?
Damn I remeber my dad built it’s own shock absorber plate with springs and everything…
My new hotness has a 30-sec anti-slip feature!
Not gonna be anti-slip when girls see it 💦
1995? … I keep this adapter for my old 2004 GM Truck … and no one I don’t want bluetooth. The atrocious sound quality is nostalgic to me and reminds me of being a teenager.
I heard the sound quality was really good because it was a direct feed to the reader.
this is very very wrong. the sound quality was a dumpster fire
Yup! I have a drawer of these things because my brother & I used to fight over them. Still use one in my dad’s truck when I steal it from him.
Leave those air pods in your pockets kids. Nothing brings the heat like the annoying clacking of the auto reverse on a cassette deck, constantly trying to flip over a cassette that doesn’t flip, while matching the rhythm of your current jam.
I think yours might be broken.
noo… you’re not moving the wire right. You have to move it back left when it does that & then hit the ff button twice.
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See. Told you it works!
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… or the faded degraded sound of ‘Appetite For Destruction’ from the worn down cassette you’ve been playing over and over again for the past ten years.
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What is this black magic?!
Why is there no wifi cassette adapter? That would be so cool.
It’d drain the batteries quickly. Wifi uses a relatively large amount of power, and low-power wifi variants like HaLow aren’t widespread yet. Bluetooth has a low energy mode for low-power devices that works well for this use case. I guess it could have a power cord, but then why use wifi when it could just plug into the phone instead?
Not an audiophile spotted!
You can’t be in audiophile mode in a car. You don’t even get proper stereo separation.
You should try the Bowers and Wilkins system in the BMW iX some time. In the USA it’s a $3,400 upgrade compared to their mid-range Harmon Kardon system (which itself is an upgrade from the base system), but it sounds amazing. 30 speakers including one in every head rest, two subwoofers under the floor, and 4 bass shakers in the front seats. 1615 watts total. Sounds better than some home cinema setups I’ve heard.
The most expensive thing I own is less than $3,000. I don’t think I’m this target demographic.
Yeah, people obsessed with car stereos are usually of the “I want everyone to know I’m playing music” variety.
And occasionally of the “I want it to be dangerous to listen to music coming from my sound system” variety.
Which I do kinda get, since I, too, thrive on wtf faces, though I generally don’t want to be a nuisance or damage my property in the process. Like it’s usually a wtf face from an unexpected combination that turns out to be better than one would expect, like saying I like chocolate sauce on sausages (which works because chocolate doesn’t have to be combined with tons of sugar).
Good, we don’t have time for the demented.
She’s a witch!
That’s fucking dope.
omfg if it does pass thru power i’ll lose my mind. my car has a “modern” cassette player with a hole in the door for one of those 3.5mm to cassette converters, i could make this WORK
Pretty sure they have a little battery.
I have one of these, not sure if its the exact model but i can confirm. Comes with a battery.
Can also confirm (to my annoyance) that you cannot have it charging and play music at the same time. So don’t bother buying a slim angled micro usb cable like I did…
They missed an opportunity to use the spinning gear to generate its own power.
That’s what I’m thinking too! The housing is probably too small to house it all but man it would be cool
Does it work alright though? How long do you usually expect it to last on any given day?
It’s not too shabby, never really counted it but I believe it lasts for about 6h at least on a full charge? I usually only drive for around an hour max though so it’s more of a guesstimate
That’s very doable. Thank you
Na, forget CDs and check out my sweet minidisc player! Waaazaaaaaaaa!!??!
Peasant.
My CD player had an FM transmitter that I tuned the car radio to.
My Nokia N97 had that too it was so sweet
What I wouldn’t give for a modern N series. Those phones rocked.
And I just broadcast my own radio station…
Joke’s on you - that’s literally what I use in my 03 Jetta 😂
That’s new tech. I had a Radio Shack adapter to play cassettes that plugged into my car’s 8-track system.
Better yet, play your phone audio through your 8-track system!
This is blowing my mind lmao. At what point just buy a new radio deck. They make modern ones that look vintage. Has HD radio and BT…
These were so much better than the radio transmitters. That brief period where cars only had CD players, no AUX or Bluetooth was the worst.
I was rocking one of these plugged into an mp3 player circa 2007-2010.
Mid 80’s me had a cassette player that plugged into the car’s 8track tape player
Mid-’80s* me
My buddy in the 80s drove a shit station wagon from the 70s that his parents gave him that had only an 8 track.
My best friend in high school in the '80s had something on his home stereo I’ve never seen before or since: an 8-track tape recorder. We would make 8-track mix tapes and take them to parties … which we promptly got kicked out of because they were tapes of stuff like Yes, King Crimson, Laurie Anderson, Tangerine Dream and Vangelis, and didn’t nobody want to listen to that kind of shit back then.
Techmoan on YouTube covers stuff like this. Here’s a video for anyone interested.
Aw hell yeah, Sparkomatic!
My first car had a cassette storage tray on the transmission hump. I made a mount for my portable CD that fit there, and ran the adapter wire underneath the dash. So fly…
Hope your CD player had skip protection 😉
I had one of these and somehow it also picked up a radio station, so no matter what I played it’d be mixed with some random techno music
Thanks for reminding me. I always wondered how exactly those worked, so I looked it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH4n8fUjtLQ
I always found them so cool for some reason. Kinda felt like magic back then, which I guess magnetism is the closest thing to it anyway.
I still used one of these daily until at least 2009 to play music from my 2006 5th gen iPod video on my 1993 Buick regal because it sounded 100x better than any fm transmitter could produce at the time.
