Hello, doing the intro thread. Been playing with cassettes since the early 80's. Like many, set them aside for a while, but enjoying them more recently. I have boomboxes, front load and top load consoles, walkmans, and still two cars that have the factory decks in them. I guess in the to-go theme, I also have two minidisc players, a reel to reel portable, and a couple of battery powered portable record players. This Aiwa HS-J700 I bought new and played a ton of tapes when I was in college. It then went and sat in a box for many years. Recently got it out, it needed new belts, but is back to work!
Welcome Lance. Resurrecting an old portable like your Aiwa must give a sense of satisfaction and enjoyment. That's what it's all about. Nando.
Welcome! I have two work trucks with cassette decks, it's always fun to find some tapes at the local garage sale. Hopefully your putting in a listening room in your new basement, I just put in a Menard's a-la-carte Wall Rack with a ton of audio but I think my sub went rogue and blew my B&Ws taking 1/2 the Technics Reciever with it. Luckily I have plenty more but I'm a little pissed. As a side note, I'm a big fan of CETCO Bentonite (Swelltite) Waterproofing for below grade foundations, even "garden-level" basements will leak.
Thanks Mister X, I like to call my whole house a listening library. Besides cassette decks, I have 25 records players spanning the decades from 1907 to 1986. I take them out for public presentations under the monikor "Puget Sound Turntable Roadshow". But back to cassettes, some of my Walkmans shown here. Lately I've been digging on the Sony "my first Sony" cassette players. Sony does low tech as good as they do hi tech. Been going through your lengthy posts for old print ads for boomboxes. Great research. I'm an Architect, you saw that basement plan. LOL.
There's a My First Sony Brochure around here somewhere. I've always loved researching things, the internet has made it easy, at least easier than looking through dozens of books in the stacks back at school. I have fun looking at the photos and articles, even the ones I can't read, in the early days of the forum there was very little vintage audio info outside of personal webpages. Now the internet has flipped and the personal free webpages are gone and there's more archival websites. Feel free to post your equipment, we love all of it.
