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In the 80’s Aiwa were fine and affordable. I remember reviews from Which? and WhatHifi. My oldest separate an Akai cassette deck, 40+ years old is sadly kaput.

How long have you had any interest in HiFi? As an aspirational kid :smile: in about 1980, Technics could be kind of affordable, but they had a far more expensive other brand. Any ideas of the brand name?

What’s the sound quality of the deck like? Presumably a …

I’ve found lots of amazing artists and songs through my teens, some when they were younger than that, I love a hook, harmony, dance beat or melody. Sometimes we discover the same artists almost simultaneously through the youtube algorithms. Isn’t it lovely sharing music with them!

Exciting isn’t it, all the wonderful new music, whilst in the backs of our minds the wealth of the old. Not enough hours in the day, optimism, escapism, music literally makes life wonderful! So glad, all the way back to age 10, that I looked after my vinyls, even when drunk :lolol: . I’ve...

I got lucky. I never tried to influence my kids on music, it just turned out that years later as we became mates each separately revealed they adored tons of the music they’d heard in the car or from my ‘study’ over the years. An eclectic mix, I’ve wide tastes. I received a wonderful surprise...

My Dad hated the Chicago House sound of Jack Your Body coming from my room, before that many years of despising Joy Division, The Cure etc. It wasn’t just the bass, we’re all kind of control freaks on music in my experience, it wasn’t his music. Then in recent years as he’s mellowed, now mid...

Thanks to @Herr Tubthumper I checked further and found this rated Teac cassette deck. https://www.richersounds.com/teac-w1200-black.html Might be an Xmas present to myself. I’ve a large drawer of my recordings on cassette - Peel, from Laser558 a pirate radio station in the mid 80’s, Sunday...

It’s a unique story …. the 1981 rubber platter, not in hot room and always looked after, unbeknown to me had deteriorated through age on its underside. Literally turning to oil, which had dripped into all the electronics below. No it was a linear tracking SL-DL1, lovely sound. I was just a...

Yeah, I did all that, and meticulously looked after vinyls even as a drunk teen! Dolby was great at eliminating most hiss.

I think my Akai HX-R5 has hit the end of the road. Last week I was looking at 80’s Nakamichi’s. Can you still purchase new HiFi cassette decks?

Project, aren’t they high end? I like the idea of the Project Debut Pro. Clearaudio Concept look simplistically beautiful.

Do you have a quality HiFi set up? My Technics deck lasted 35 years (bought when I was in the 6th form), when it broke I bought a Rega Planar 1 … great sound. I’ve still got a cassette deck.

Exactly the same for me, so evocative even now, I have a good memory especially of all those happy moments in your teens and twenties, with music so much part of it. Luckily my school/clubbing/holidaying mates all loved the same music. A psychologist recently explained about this on the radio...

I still every 7”, 10”, 12” and album vinyls going back to the beginning, when I was about 10. The vast majority in very good condition, even then I looked after things. I threw away one mucg loved vinyl a few years back as it was scratched badly, but by luck I had two .... Joy Division I...

Have you still got the vinyls from your youth? Even when buyable digital music first appeared in CD’s, I always found a richness and depth of sound from vinyls, that’s hard to replicate. Their comeback over the last 15 years or so has been a godsend, initially the dance DJ culture got the...

“Probably consuming more (music) than ever” ..... the same here. I’ve loved music all my life and have a decent collection of vinyls, but youtube for me has been a great new source. Often from where your choices have finished playing, youtube’s algorithms continue playing tunes you may like...

Secateurs. (Sorry if that word offends Brexiteers .... so, pruners).

I forgot to add that bit. My parents couldn’t play instruments, sing, read music etc, so I didn’t have that background. Not very upper middle class! My Dad was and is a lover of listening to music, hence my siblings and I ended up with the same passion. Always love hearing stories like...

If I could turn the clock back, one of the things I’d change would’ve been to take a true interest in music at school and to learn to play an instrument (instead of being a shy kid, clock watching for the end of lessons I didn’t thrive in). Knowing my musical loves since, which include dance...