Radio cassette with Dolby

Nakamichi.

They list the Nak as well.

I have a spare SC303, there is a minor mechanical fault (screw fallen out IIRC) on the tape player, you could repair it or swap your tape deck into it. I bought a new removable bit for it before I found out about the tape part. Radio is all fine, yours for £30 (cost of the front bit)

Mrcheerful

Most don't bother because the noise level in a car is such that you can't hear the Dolby pumping.

But I'd feel inclined to join the 21st century and get a CD player. ;-)

Must admit, I'd be inclined to do the same. Or get one without dolby and a CD changer or hard drive.

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

I *think* I can hear the difference.

I do have a portable CD player with adapter, but also lots of cassettes that have not yet been transferred to CD.

Thanks to all for their suggestions and help.

Could be; I've never bothered much with cassettes - even for car use.

The Minidisc would have been an ideal replacement for cassettes in a car, but strangely didn't take off.

In message , Peter Twydell writes

In that case by far the best thing to do is to digitise your tape collection now, before the quality deteriorates or the tapes get snarled. You can then do a straight burn to disc of the resultant WAV file and hence get one CD per tape, or compress to MP3 format and get several tapes on one CD. Dumping the tape to HD also allows you to sort out any noise problems with the original before burning to disc. Please feel free to contact me if you want any more details of how to do this.

The high pitch and crackles are pretty obvious to me without Dolby. Incidentally, I must say in the last 15-20 years the music reproduction in the car has so improved that now I prefer listening to certain kind of music inside the car. Yes, honestly! Maybe the electronics or the acoustics have been finally so finely tuned for in-car reproduction, inside an enclosed small chamber, that now for surround sound effect and in full blast, it's even better than the audio system at home. It's more a total immersion in sound and the powerful emotion that this provokes. For one thing I have no anxiety that the sound level may upset the neighbours.

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I've got a Sony sometyhing or other with Dolby B&C, it's in the Golf, but I use the cd autochanger much more often than the tape deck.

In message , leo writes

I would love to digitise my entire music collection, but it's a long way down the list of things to do. We move here 16 months ago, so the list contains repairing the fence, fixing the plumbing, getting the satellite dish mounted, sorting out the garage so I can find my tools, setting up and connecting the sound & TV systems, etc etc. Earning money to pay for this place also fits in there somewhere!

I just went and checked, as it's a long time since I played a tape with Dolby switched off, and it's amazing what the difference is.

In message , MrCheerful writes

Thanks. I'm working on a number of solutions ATM, but I'll bear it in mind. If I don't take it, I have a friend who needs an SC303 for his daughter's Cav. This one developed a fault that kept draining the battery.

Technology companies producing consumer products already have their line planned a couple of years in advance, even if the technology isn't fully developed at the time. Sony were all too aware that mp3s were the next big thing, which is why minidiscs never really took off. If you can remember the time in which they were advertised, it wasn't particularly effective or well done. I have a friend who works for Sony UK, who's a marketing buff, who explained why they never wasted the money promoting it heavily.

In message , Peter Twydell writes

Ah - but it's something you can do whilst doing something else. Set the tape deck to auto reverse, set up your PC to dump incoming audio to a WAV file (use Wave Repair for preference - free) and then go away and do something else for an hour