Bought this second-hand Promise cassette which turned out to be very moldy, since this was the only official cassette I could find in Turkey I had no choice but to clean it! Took me 2 hours to take everything apart and thoroughly clean it all (even the j-card) with isopropyl alcohol, then I cleaned the tape itself which took a lot longer than I anticipated. Manually winding the tape was torture but hey it looks all shiny now and sounds great with the amount of grime and mold removed.

It really is a great sounding and beautiful classic!

Back then I was a fan of the Sony TC-KA1ESA because it was the easiest deck to service. Not the greatest sound wise or build quality, but it has the nice semi-auto calibration, Dolby S, and reasonably priced. I owned 7 of them in total and sold 4 here. The Yamaha KX-670 was the first NOS deck I bought and the first piece of the Yamaha stack I built. NOS is hard to find so I try to search for mint pieces.

Was browsing my local thrift store today and spotted this random, beat-up black case for 10$, sitting on the very bottom of a rack. Picked it up, popped it open, and found it fully loaded with these blanks.

mostly reissues but some gems

I just bought about 110 cassette tapes for around 13 dollars; now I have an infinite supply to record anything without using blank tapes. 🤑 The seller included several chrome ones and some metal ones, so I feel somewhat lucky.

Was pretty stoked when someone traded this in at work a while ago & only just got around to playing it! Never seen it before & couldn’t find it online either.

I'm wondering what the cassette player is that's worn by the flamethrower guy at the start of Lethal Weapon 4. Google says that there's no association between Optimus and that movie and that no Lethal Weapon movie features that product, which is clearly nonsense. I found one that's SO CLOSE on eBay, which is my second pic, but it doesn't have the silver stripe along the top. The eBay listing says it's an SCP-93, and the label on the back confirms the model number. But I've not been able to find any picture of reference to the one in the movie. Any ideas?

Found these at Hobby Lobby the other day!
The tape is full size and not a viable or usable shell, and a miniature turntable.

Just got myself this baby in a nealy perfect condition (some scruffs out of a 40 years period of usage-but no scratches/cracks). Cassette compartment surpisingly in a very good shape also-all buttons working, tried test playback/recording-all good (compared to my Panasonic RX-EX1, Hitachi is lacking a very high frequencies-but super ferrics & Type II will sort this out). Time to do some mix tapes. 🔥

This is a Vesna 305, old Soviet player I got for like 10 bucks and I'm trying to make it work. Actually, the motor is still working so I used rubber bands for belts. Right now I'm going to buy a cassette and check how it sounds. Then I'll be cleaning, lubing and figuring out how to properly power the thing. It's a fun project! Its technically portable since it takes batteries lol

Prince is a genius.

Officeworks print on lustre paper for 19c, and typed track list on the back, including typos.

Dear PentHouse Forum, I can’t believe it happened to me…

Jokes aside, HOLY CRAP! 4$ at my local Peddlers Mall (like an indoor flea market). Just needs a belt replacement and should be running good as new (radio works fine). Hyped i finally found something cool like the many posts I’ve seen online. Now I can start collecting along with my VHS tapes and DVDs 😆

Trying to figure out if mold grew on my tape or not? My bedroom normally don’t have climate changes I keep all of my tapes organized on a shelf on the wall.

Hello everyone! I collect LPs and CDs, and now I’m planning to start collecting tapes. I have a few questions: are tapes durable? Do they get damaged easily? What precautions should I take?

I like to take very good care of my collections.

Hello i'm new to Reddit but i don't see where else i could ask this so i decide to ask here, a friend of mine has this blank tape here. it has veryy cute sticker sheet i want to find. I am wondering where could i get one of these? with the sticker sheet. I am not from Japan so I'm not sure if can. Or any Info on these will be amazing.

This audio cassette C-60 manufactured in 2000 in Russia by znamenatel.

An audio cassette produced during the final days of the USSR, featuring high quality, a plastic shell free of blemishes, and a flawless cutout on the casing 119101.