I don't watch much television, but recently I have been watching YouTube videos streamed from a Roku on our living room screen (definitely check out Techmoan- he's great). Maybe that doesn't count as "television" per se as I can pick and choose my content, but it's as close as I am willing to get. I find that most programming lowers IQ (as shown by unscientific observation). At any rate, I have noticed from my YouTube channel browsing that there seems to be something of a renaissance in the use of analog cassettes, not unlike what vinyl has experienced. My wife puts this in the "what is old is new again" category, but I for one am glad the world is catching back up to this humble blogger. As regular readers know, we have been making mix tapes around these parts for some years now! (I have had probably five or six different decks come and go since I started blogging, mostly Sonys but also a Nakamichi, a Yamaha or two and a Harman Kardon). Much better than trying to organize your iTunes files. Pictured above is the primary deck we have been using for the past year or so, a Sony TC-K700es. About five years ago I had it refurbished with the plan of being buried with it when I croak. Unfortunately, just recently the spring that assists the door opening popped free of the housing, so I will have to open it up and see about fixing that (although the deck still works fine). It is an older model and primarily manual in function- no auto reverse or auto bias. I think that this piece will be the focus of the next few posts as I work to get the door mechanism repaired and dig up some info on it. please feel free to let me know if you have or are currently using one like it, I'd appreciate anything you can tell me. The only caveat will be the weather- we recently changed rooms for the stereo set up (that's ANOTHER story altogether) and there is no a/c in that room so if it's still summer hot things will have to wait a bit. I have not had a good listening session since June!
