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Interesting bit of kit, cassette tape duplicator

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Red Squirrel:
I feel old calling this vintage, but it probably qualifies as that I guess.  For such a simple purpose it's built like a tank, and weighs about as much as one.   





I help out with sound at my church and we were going through some old stuff and this was heading to the garbage so figured I'd grab it.  I was curious and it would cost around $600 to ship to Australia so probably not a mailbag worthy item lol.

mathsquid:
I haven't seen one of these in years, but we had one--possibly the exact same model--at my job when I was a college student. I worked in the office that did moved instructional equipment around campus, and did some limited audio and video copying and editing. We didn't use this thing all that often, but it definitely came in handy sometimes.

Ed.Kloonk:
I dunno, man the fact that you put this in dodgy tech is apt cos I'm a hifi snob.  :)

Ed.Kloonk:

Simon:
The talking newspaper that I run used to use cassettes, boy am I glad we don't anymore and even the old farts are too as now they get through the duplication and dispatching faster with memory sticks even though the cassette duplicators did 19 cassettes at a time in 3 minutes.

I really have to cringe when I hear stuff like that warm analogue sound of cassettes. I had a couple of cassettes as a teenager and did my own mix tape of some of my dad's music. But I can't say I enjoyed tape, it was something to be endured.

The resurgence of tapes rode on the coat tails of the misconception that vynal was better than digital because the old farts that could not let go said so and for some reason the millennials re-enacted much like a cargo cult the actions and attitudes of their parents that grew up with vynal.

Anyone that claims tape is better is suffering under several illusions.

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