Fox Cassette Player Sounds Like It Is Underwater
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Wow it's been a long time since I've even heard the word cassette lol. I get mad when the shuffle function on the Alpine in my fox for some reason plays the same MP3 twice in a row.
All jokes aside. Sounds like the head may be dirty. Do you have one of the cleaning cassettes?
All jokes aside. Sounds like the head may be dirty. Do you have one of the cleaning cassettes?
..and if you can find one, a head demagnatizer. Maybe Radio Shack if you can get passed all the cheap chinese phone case isles and factory broken RC toys.
It's a cassette deck Flintsone....It sounded like it was underwater when it was new.
If you have access to compressed air, you can try blowing it out. I have twin cassette decks on the old Sears stereo on my toolbox at work, and that's what I do when it gets wonky when playing music from my phone via my cassette adapter. If you can find a cleaning cassette and/or demagnetizer (as mentioned before), that's even better.
And then,....when it just couldn't get any worse,..you use an adapter to downgrade compressed music files (which are already downgraded as it is) to the limited dynamics of a 35 yr old cassette deck.
Why not just listen to AM radio?
Simple. It's 35 year old Sears radio what was cheap when it was new, isn't worth anything now, and cost me nothing because I inherited it when a relative passed away and is hooked up to a pair of Yamaha speakers I picked up at Goodwill for $10. If someone decides to steal it, I'm out $10. Also, once in awhile, I listen to Bob FM (
you not, that's what the station is called) or NPR instead of one of my gazillion playlists on Amazon.It's also hilarious that none of the kids at work (at the ripe old age of 32 I'm one of the "old farts" at the shop on night shift) know what an 8-track player is (it has one), how it works, or have actually used a turntable (it has one of those too) and think it's "sooooo retro".
And... when I run out of cars to fix (rare, but it happens) I try to figure out what's going on with the damned turntable. It worked fine when the thing went into storage 6 years ago, but since I got it out it makes a loud popping sound every revolution somewhere inside that I haven't been able to find the source of. I fixed the sticking potentiometers and got both cassette decks working again, and the 8-track still works though!
$8 a month for unlimited, but what you get for just being a Prime member is alread excellent and commercial free. It also uses less data than Pandora and FAR less than Slacker with the same sound quality, and even the "free with Prime" version is commercial-free.Amazon radio... Hmmm.I haven't even looked at it.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKO8DZ_0Zhw
This is the one I have at work... It's been in my life forever, used to play 45s and albums on it all day at my grandmother's house.
Her much nicer JCPenney stereo with 5-band equalizer, 3-speed turntable, and 4-channel inputs and outputs is the one I kept for home. That Sears radio didn't even sound all that great new, which was why it was in the guest bedroom.
One day in the near future people will have no idea what that is.....I'm talking about Sears by the way....
I don't think anyone knows what it is now. It's nothing like it used to be. They should be Amazon. They created large scale catalog sales but failed to move it to the next logical step, preferring monster stores instead.
They should have followed their initial business model.
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