Cassettes?

So if you have a large collection of cassette tapes covering everywhere from late 1960's to whenever it was that you bought a CD player.... What do you do?

Like many people of my age I have a large box of tapes. Some bought and some where you, or usually a mate, has recorded or copied one for you.

The latter was the way I got a lot of music. A work mate Nigel had a state of the art piece of kit that could copy tape to tape seemlessly and also rip CD's.  It even faded a track towards the end of the side of the tape and faded it back in as it reversed. Now that was magic. Of course it could record from vinyl as well.

We had one of those mini getto blasters. They CD player gave up and whilst it played cassettes the sound wasn't that good. Whatever the problem was it was terminal. So it went to the dump.

I had a look on Amazon. Where else? It's nearly Christmas. My birthday is on Wednesday too.

Enter stage right.

A kind of "Walkman" with the added ability to connect USB to a laptop to burn from cassette to MP3.

It had managed to accumulate 4* from over 450 reviews and so I bought one.

It arrived this morning. Two AA batteries and it was running. Sound quality quite good through my headphones. The supplied ones don't look that good.

I also have a Cube Bluetooth speaker that also has an "audio in" socket, plus a short jack to jack plug cable.

A demo of Focus's "Hamburger Concerto" proved that they work together well. Not too much hiss from a 40 year old tape that hasn't been all that well looked after....

 

The other reason to buy this unit is that it has a USB outlet and included software to burn my MP3 files on a computer. 

I didn't test this bit yet. I"ll do that  once I tear the wrapping paper off on my birthday!!