Ever Used The Cassette (tape) Player In Your IS?

Claire G · May 28, 2003

Yeah used my mine - for nursery rhyme tapes

Fidgits · May 28, 2003

Yeah used my mine - for nursery rhyme tapes

An umbrella works just as well :winky:

Unity_neil · May 28, 2003

I must say that the near 50/50 split surprised me! Although the stats are somewhat skewed by those of us using the tape shaped adapters for other things! :P

peterb · May 29, 2003

I do use the tape player for spoken word tapes.

However, the wind and low profile tyre roar is such that I have to set the volume control to 1 o'clock!

PaulFromSwindon · May 31, 2003

Not a tape man, but the other day decided I wanted to listen to a certain Genesis song. Turns out I only had it on one of those old-fashioned tape thingys. Called 'Cassettes' apparently, I'm told they have magnetic tape in them. How quaint! Actually, I'm sure I can remember the tape stuff. Quite good at winding itself round the tape heads as I recall. Also very adept at adding a hissy sound to all your music, my old brian seems to recollect.

Anyhoo, plonked the 'cassette' into the slot, turns out not to be too bad. Nice to re-aquaint my self with the old hiss, but not as hissy as the very cheap tape player thingies I used to have in my cars. You can even rewind and forward to the start/end of each track. Gee, what will they think of next? I bet one day you'll just use discs, with no magnetic tape, where you can go directly to each track. Oh, to dream...

In summary, the cassette player did a fair job, but I won't make a habit of using them in my Lexus, cos even the best tape player thingies will eat your music tapes in the end. Besides, I've thought a lot about these cassette thingys, and to be honest, I don't think they'll ever catch on.