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DOTTI said:
I just downloaded Madonna's 1983 album 'Madonna' (Reissue), from Spotify, and feeling very nostalgic and also like an old moll.

I'm a total Madonna stan way back from the 80's. 🤩
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Cool, but you know if you really want to get full on nostalgic you could possibly purchase an original vinyl record or audio cassette of this Madonna album from 1983 on ebay? LOL! You know there has been a resurgence of vinyl records for a while now. I just wish there would be a resurgence of the good old audio cassettes again. They are more what I grew up with and these days it's very hard to purchase any new high quality audio cassettes at all.

**looks to the left of my room where i'm sitting, yes there is a nice old Nakamichi cassette deck sitting on top of a classic Pioneer CD player and that's stacked on a classic Pioneer receiver amplifier**. Na i'm not nostalgic and stuck in the past at all...? lol.

I walked into one of those new sort of "vinyl revival" stores some years ago as I saw some classic hifi equipment through the front window. Anyway I started chatting with the bloke who owned the store and I may have hinted that I do some of my own repairs to some classic cassette decks and he was like wow there is not many people out there that touch these old things let alone try to repair them anymore. He was basically offering me a job to take on some repairs of some hifi equipment at the store if I was interested. Amazing walk into a classic hifi store and get offered a job on the spot...lol

Just goes to show you how much a throw away society we have become now, most things are all built to perform but not to last. Also they are not designed to be repaired but to be discarded and they want you to keep buying new things all the time.

Anyway always trying to keep it old school all the way here! LOL! :thumbsup: :) Cheers!

 
Converse said:
Cool, but you know if you really want to get full on nostalgic you could possibly purchase an original vinyl record or audio cassette of this Madonna album from 1983 on ebay? LOL! You know there has been a resurgence of vinyl records for a while now. I just wish there would be a resurgence of the good old audio cassettes again. They are more what I grew up with and these days it's very hard to purchase any new high quality audio cassettes at all.

**looks to the left of my room where i'm sitting, yes there is a nice old Nakamichi cassette deck sitting on top of a classic Pioneer CD player and that's stacked on a classic Pioneer receiver amplifier**. Na i'm not nostalgic and stuck in the past at all...? lol.

I walked into one of those new sort of "vinyl revival" stores some years ago as I saw some classic hifi equipment through the front window. Anyway I started chatting with the bloke who owned the store and I may have hinted that I do some of my own repairs to some classic cassette decks and he was like wow there is not many people out there that touch these old things let alone try to repair them anymore. He was basically offering me a job to take on some repairs of some hifi equipment at the store if I was interested. Amazing walk into a classic hifi store and get offered a job on the spot...lol

Just goes to show you how much a throw away society we have become now, most things are all built to perform but not to last. Also they are not designed to be repaired but to be discarded and they want you to keep buying new things all the time.

Anyway always trying to keep it old school all the way here! LOL! :thumbsup: :) Cheers!

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I have considered buying a record player but I've wondered about finding the needles when they need replacing (could be problematic). Nothing beats the sound of vinyl records. The acoustics are definitely better. I had a massive collection of vinyls once upon a time. Cool story about you walking into that vinyl store and that guy offered you a job. Repair jobs like that would be basically unheard of now.

Ha! I had so many mix tapes of cassettes back in the day and I still have one that my bestie made for me. I will never part with it even though I don't have a tape deck. I know you can buy portable boomboxes that have a cassette deck but as you pointed out, it's hard to find audio cassettes.

I love that you still have your cassette deck and great you have a Pioneer sound system. Pioneer is the best for quality and sound. I remember my cousin telling me that years ago.

Thanks for replying to my message and have a great day. ☺️🎼
 
DOTTI said:
I have considered buying a record player but I've wondered about finding the needles when they need replacing (could be problematic). Nothing beats the sound of vinyl records. The acoustics are definitely better. I had a massive collection of vinyls once upon a time. Cool story about you walking into that vinyl store and that guy offered you a job. Repair jobs like that would be basically unheard of now.

Ha! I had so many mix tapes of cassettes back in the day and I still have one that my bestie made for me. I will never part with it even though I don't have a tape deck. I know you can buy portable boomboxes that have a cassette deck but as you pointed out, it's hard to find audio cassettes.

I love that you still have your cassette deck and great you have a Pioneer sound system. Pioneer is the best for quality and sound. I remember my cousin telling me that years ago.

Thanks for replying to my message and have a great day. ☺️🎼
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With the record players your in luck as they are still readily available to purchase brand new you can get a nice high quality turntable if you want to or there is even quite alot of cheapies available out there. I am guessing with the more higher quality units there should be new spare "needles" if it ever needs replacing. I bought a brand new turntable from JBHIFI many years ago which I only used a couple of times and it has sat in the original box unused now for probably around 20 years. Speaking of JBHIFI the last time I walked in there I saw a huge selection of brand new vinyl records for sale! I had to turn and look again as I walked past them I couldn't believe my eyes to see so many brand new records for sale right now at JBHIFI. There is certainly a resurgence or revival of vinyl records happening at the moment, I never saw that many records available at JBHIFI (if any records at all) back in the 1990's and early 2000's when I used to always visit that store in those days to purchase CD's and other stuff.

Speaking of records I was quite young when I actually played a few records that were here and there around the house, I never really got into the records much as a kid in the 1980's it was the decade of the audio cassette then growing up into the 1990's we then started to get into the CD's. Which I do remember we all thought were awesome in the sense that the sound was crystal clear and perfect no matter how many times you played a CD. I bought a few original audio cassettes when I was younger but most of my music collection is all on the CD format and i'd hate to think how much money I have spent on CD's back in the early 90's right through until about the early 2000's. I still have all the original CD's I have purchased in a draw under this computer desk...lol. Back then I used to pay around $25 to $30 a CD.

Speaking of audio cassettes I bought quite a few NOS (New Old Stock) audio cassettes from ebay some years ago from all around the globe. I mainly bought the "Chrome" position tapes as they have a real nice higher quality sound when recorded on than just the regular "Normal" position tapes. Problem with those cassettes is though over time I guess they can degrade and the actual plastic tape wears down and also lose it's original recording properties. I bought a bunch of really old cassette tapes some years ago from some op-shops and a few of them as I played them the actual tape snapped while playing or rewinding.

As for the Pioneer hifi components they are just some original items that I purchased from back in the 1990's when most of those things were the big thing back then.

Yes I also have a collection of some audio cassettes that I recorded with my mates from back in the 1990's. It's so weird and funny to listen back to them these days some of the crazy stuff we'd talk about and get upto back then. I even have audio recordings of talking to people on a CB radio from back in those days recorded on cassette! Nostalgia at it's peak! LOL! :D

Cheers and thanks for the chat Dotti! Have an awesome day! :)
 
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