Talk:Cassette deck

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With the mention of tape use in automobiles it should also be mentioned that it was a stupid idea because the machines were always getting buggered by dust. CD players don't have that problem. Anyone should remember how often you would find a tape player in a car and it wouldn't work or there'd be something wrong with it. And I'm not just talking old cars, I mean cars with tape decks only 5 years old or less wouldn't work. How many cars with CD players over 5 years old, still work?

Never experienced this problem, or know anyone who it applies to. Maybe it's a regional thing (I imagine some countries would be dustier than others). It's definitely true that the transport mechanisms of some early car decks was pretty crap, some lacked a supply spool, so there was nothing to keep the tape in tension within the cassette - these were very prone to getting tangled and/or wrapped around the capstan. The article currently doesn't really discuss in-car units, which might even come under a different article. Graham

Analog golden ears

"Some audiophiles believe that cassette deck technology, due to its analog nature, provides sound recordings superior to current digital technology, such as CDR and DAT."

Does anyone really believe cassettes are sonically superior to CDs and DAT tapes? I have heard many audiophiles extol the virtues of analogue tape, but they were talking about reel-to-reel tape, not cassettes. AdorableRuffian 01:06, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some audiophiles do believe this. Noise reduction systems like dbx can even expand dynamic range to near CD quality.--Blainster 22:16, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some people use them in recording studio chains because the saturation of the magnetic tape serves as a good compressor for drum beats, which they claim can't be duplicated by anything else. — Omegatron 12:55, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tape in recording studio chains is either 1/2" or 2" tape, not cassette tape. It's a completely different material. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.237.162.37 (talk) 19:09, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Is there a citation for this? I haven't met a single person who has cassettes are better than CDs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.237.163.118 (talk) 17:34, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Symbols

"Cassette players pioneered the modern set of control buttons, play, pause, stop, record, fast forward and rewind. "

Where did the triangular and square symbols for these buttons come from? What meaning did the words "pause" and "play" have before they were used on cassette decks that made them good names for these keys? "Playing back a recording" wouldn't have meant anything until after audio recording was invented. — Omegatron 12:52, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

From reel to reel decks Tabby 11:46, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The functions certainly existed on r-r decks and recorders but it was during the era of the cassette deck that the symbols - square for stop, right-facing filled-in triangle for play, etc., were standardized. I remember reading that some industry standard organization was involved, but I can't remember which one. Jeh (talk) 17:48, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deck? What the hell is that?

Who comes up with these sappy article titles? I worked as an engineer for four years at a video/data recorder company in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and we never called any tape recorders as "decks", either our own or those of other manufacturers. —Quicksilver^{T @} 16:44, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"deck" was common throughout the consumer side of the business for a machine without power amplifiers and speakers; if it had those it was a "recorder" (unless of course it could play only, then it was a "player"). There were many permutations: "Cassette deck", "reel to reel tape deck", etc. The terminology seems to persist today even though the product category is now small; see for example J&R Music World, Crutchfield, Sony, Denon (scroll down a bit for that one)... did you just never talk to your marketing department, or see any of their output, at all? Jeh (talk) 17:41, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We called them nothing but tape decks in California during the 1960s to 1980s. Binksternet (talk) 17:53, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Cassette deck" was/is very much *the* accepted term: in fact look closely on the fascia of most of these machines, they are inscribed with brand name, model number and the phrase "cassette deck" or "stereo cassette deck"... overlooking that Nakamichi had 3 machines actually named "Cassette Deck 1", "Cassette Deck 1.5", "Cassette Deck 2"...

86.25.121.157 (talk) 13:42, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Auto Next Track

What was the name of the auto next track feature? Wasn't the length of silence between songs patented? That probably deserves a mention here. I remeber it being called sps5 oor something similar on one tape deck I saw. Betterthanalemur (talk) 19:37, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So who was the first to introduce machines with 3 heads ?

At present, the article for Nakamichi claims *they* were the first... and the article for Technics claims *they* were the first... though neither article cites a source for that claim...
86.25.121.157 (talk) 13:31, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Last car with a tape deck?

The article says that by the late 2000s, the installation of tape decks in cars ceased. If so, what was the last car that had a cassette deck as a standard option and when was it rolled out? Thanks. ---Ransom (--67.91.216.67 (talk) 17:09, 7 April 2011 (UTC))[reply]