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Hello! A ton of people have latched onto the photo I posted of that cassette changer, so I decided to expand on that! In this post, I'm going to go over a brief history of the cassette, as well as some cool stuff about changers.
Let's start with a brief history of the Cassette tape. The Cassette was introduced to the world in 1963, but wouldn't seen a North American release until about 1966, after Philips had been producing them in Europe for about three years. Music wasn't put onto the tapes until late 1965, as the sound quality and marketing were targeted at voice recording and dictation (captains log...) and didn't allow for a quality music experience until then. But after only two years they improved it enough to allow for music! These changes came fast, and soon enough the cassette changer came along. There are, of course, more types of changers than Cassette changers. The most popular of which are the Jukebox! Cassette changers were the next natural step in making music easier to play. Although they weren't very common, it was easier to simply change the cassette manually, they still were popular. as evidenced by the response on the post! Huge thanks to Gene Arés and Mark Stevenson (and anyone else) on our facebook post for telling us about Techmoan's video all about the exact same changer we posted! It was super helpful and informative, as I don't even know much about them myself, despite having an extensive collection of cassette tapes. You can find the video linked here (opens in new window), we recommend giving it a watch if you really liked our post! Another hot debate is between 8-track and Cassette. Both were popular enough to warrant changers, but many more people seemed interested in the cassette changer, some even disparaging 8-tracks. As a transfer specialist, 8-tracks are annoying because I can't take them apart, and they are pretty much unusable now. Cassette tapes have held up much better, and I can replace the case if I need to. But that's just my personal bias, if you prefer 8-track or cassette, comment on this post saying which you prefer and why, I'd love to hear from you all! Thanks for reading our blog, we hope you liked it! We'll be regularly posting, so stay tuned to our Facebook page for updates whenever a post goes live. Make sure to like us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to see all new updates and posts looking back on analog technology and the past. |
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