Tag Archives: music

Cassette Culture Untangled

Posted on Friday, 25. July 2008 by hmvh

TDK, BASF, Maxell, Denon, and Sony: Once, these were among the most important words in the teenage lexicon. The advent of the iPod, downloads and peer-to-peer networks seemed certain to consign the old analogue cassette tape to cultural oblivion, but in music, it seems, that what goes around doesn’t just come around again; it’s simply rewound! Continue reading →

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Ghosts in the cassette shell

Posted on Monday, 16. June 2008 by hmvh

The Tape2MP3 project is making slow but certain progress. Of course, it can’t all be fun and games: we’ve had about three tapes so far that got munched by the tape deck, and another snapped… but nothing that a screwdriver, a pen and some sticky-tape can’t fix! Continue reading →

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Pitstop

Posted on Monday, 7. August 2006 by hmvh

Observant fans and followers may have noticed that there has been little development on the Bora sound front, and they’d only be partially correct: nothing but cranial and background activity going on… Continue reading →

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Delusions of grand ideas

Posted on Friday, 21. July 2006 by hmvh

It handles CD/MP3/WMA, has RDS, a built-in 50W MOSFET amplifier, subwoofer outputs, matching illumination, and then some. Surely it’s no match for my old JVC radio/tape/CD head unit? Continue reading →

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Sound Decisions

Posted on Friday, 7. July 2006 by hmvh

The decision that needs to be made now is whether to modify and transplant it into the Bora, or scrap it and simply design a new system from scratch… or a combination of the two. Continue reading →

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