Fox Cassette Player Sounds Like It Is Underwater

madmike1157 said:

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?

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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!