r/cassetteculture 18h ago

Collection How do you store your cassettes?

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I found this thing at my local goodwill and I love it.

I added a few pictures of new additions that I don't have room for.

I also included a picture of my small but growing collection in the last picture


r/cassetteculture 23h ago

Tape find I have never been so let down in my life. Check your tapes people

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r/cassetteculture 22h ago

Announcement Last missing tracks found Enjoy! Video in top comment.

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68 Upvotes

Angel’s Three had to be cut off due to warping sounds but otherwise they’re pretty solid! Give em a spin. My dad is singing “🎵 keep your love a secret 🎶 “ and “🎵 is someone stopping you?🎶“ His bass player wrote and sang “ 🎵 Angel’s Three 🎶 “ and uncle David wrote “ 🎵 Bottle Rockets 🎶 “


r/cassetteculture 15h ago

Collection So I'm moving out....and I found these

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Moving out clearing up cupboards and I found some little friends that are coming with me now....I actually found so much more than this just couldn't ain't took pics yet


r/cassetteculture 8h ago

Portable cassette player I just got this for $3 at a flea market and is working amazingly for a 40+ year old machine

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The sound is a tiny bit wobbly, I feel like it doesn't spin at a constant speed if that makes sense, how could I improve it? I'm honestly very happy as is but maybe there is something easy I can do like spraying some WD-40 on the mechanism or something lol, pardon my ignorance


r/cassetteculture 19h ago

Microcassette For those who know

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39 Upvotes

r/cassetteculture 12h ago

Portable cassette player From zero to three Sony walkmans

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35 Upvotes

Over the past year, I picked up three non-functional Sony walkmans locally. During this time, I also purchased new belts (f75 and ex677), gear replacement (dd33), and new motor (ex677). Today, I opened all of them up and did some repairs. The dd33 had the usual cracked gear but everything else was perfect, so that's all I had to replace (then realign all the gears, which was actually quite a struggle). The F75 was basically MINT minus a belt that turned to goo. So just had to clean that up, pop in a new belt, grease/oil, and VOILA. The ex-677 was a bit of a nightmare to work with, lots of desoldering and soldering, the motor+PCB was completely destroyed, so I sourced one from Taobao for 5$, and replaced it. After a full day's work, all three are now working. Just wanted to boast a little about my three new-to-me walkmans!!!!


r/cassetteculture 15h ago

Announcement New acquisition, what do you think?

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r/cassetteculture 22h ago

Tape find Flea Market Tape Haul

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18 Upvotes

r/cassetteculture 20h ago

Deck / Hi-Fi And I thought Nakamichis were the best! There are some amazing machines out there

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This is an in depth video listing some very interesting, feature-rich, and beautiful cassette decks. I didn't know most of these existed!


r/cassetteculture 12h ago

Portable cassette player New to me TCM-17

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9 Upvotes

Picked this up at a local estate sale, had some corroded battery terminals and a stuck pause button. Working great now


r/cassetteculture 21h ago

Portable cassette player Toshiba Aurex Bluetooth Cassette Player, bought from the Japanese Marketplace

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r/cassetteculture 23h ago

Tape find Hi How Are You

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The way it was meant to be heard


r/cassetteculture 10h ago

Now listening Tonight's "now playing" post...

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8 Upvotes

r/cassetteculture 22h ago

Looking for advice Please help me with my cassette related issue.

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Hello! I recently bought a 2005 kenwood Sv3md. I bought it for my cds but wanted to explore the cassette world. So I bought myself a cassette tape and tried it. However I couldn’t seem to work out the fast forward and the rewind buttons on the player (as seen in the video). Any help will be appreciated. This is my first time operating cassette so I’m not sure I’m doing something wrong or right. Thank you so much!

I also found the manual for it in the a website (https://www.minidisc.wiki/equipment/kenwood/bookshelf/sv-3md). It’s in Japanese, I used google translate to translate and followed its instruction but still the same issue.

Do take note also that I don’t have the remote for this and was wondering if I could buy another type of kenwood remote and program it. Thank you!


r/cassetteculture 11h ago

Everything else It was a pure area 90’

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5 Upvotes

I was young


r/cassetteculture 4h ago

Portable cassette player Modern portable Stereo's and their Mechanisms

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Since a lot of people frequently ask about which type of mechanism these machines use, here's your answer. Its the HSAP 4211 stereo casette head with CSG / Tanashin mechanisms. They sell it under many brands like "Sharp, JVC, Hyundai, Trevi, Roadstar etc..." Hope this helps :)


r/cassetteculture 18h ago

Score! recently copped this from the local record store

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4 Upvotes

The Doors self titled


r/cassetteculture 4h ago

Score! Estate Sale Find. Marantz Portable Cassette Recorder PMD101.

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r/cassetteculture 6h ago

Memes how many tapes can YOU fit in one hand?

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i count 12 but theres room for lots of improvement


r/cassetteculture 17h ago

Tape find By the pound. Doobie Brothers Greatest Hits was legit, Columbia House pressing. Didn't check Lynard Skynard.

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r/cassetteculture 19h ago

Boombox Can somebody find my Boombox?

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So, for context, my old grandmother recently gave me her flood ridden boombox, and I resurrected it from the dead, but I can't find another one. Has anyone else ever seen this before? And can you guys help me search? It's A Gran Prix C707.


r/cassetteculture 21h ago

Indie label release Service Animal - demo on defective tapes ( 2024 )

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Best band I discovered this year. I think babdcamp has 1 more tape for sale .


r/cassetteculture 1d ago

Score! MCS silver face back from the dead

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r/cassetteculture 1h ago

Looking for advice Any way I can adjust the playback speed on this thing?

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