![]() ![]() "Nah Man" he quipped, "You gotta have something better than that". Impressed by the sound and loudness from my Craig amp (the first car stereo amp) One of my younger colleagues asked what I have for home listening? Embarrassed and feeling cornered by that question, I admitted to the Electra unit, and headphones. ![]() (the earlier tapes were mastered better) Being that I had one of the better sounding systems in my GTO, I did a demo for my co-workers at a job site, a rare day I had driven my car to the site. They were for the car, mostly, but did have an Electra 8 track player and Lafayette headphones for home listening! When these were new, they played without issue, no eaten tapes, no gummed up heads, and didn't sound bad at all. great album) Elton John, even the Beatles sounded fine on the Capitol 8 tracks. My first music collection was 8 tracks! Lots of titles, Moody Blues, Zeppelin, The Hollies (Distant Light. And I can't imagine someone not caring that a song fades out. Put an 8-track in the most expensive player on earth, and the tape will still wear itself out, by design. Even if one wants to argue that 8-tracks sound just as good as other formats, no other format wears itself out like 8-tracks did. But in both cases (cassettes and LPs) this wear is very minimal with even halfway decent components. LPs will eventually wear from stylus friction. Cassette tape will eventually wear from friction on heads, but doesn't have friction designed into the mechanics of the cassette itself. These tapes were a great stepping stone on the road to portable audio.īut saying, "Things can go wrong with other formats too." ignores the fact that these other formats don't have wear designed into them. I wanted one of the colored, portable 8-track players with the big plunger on top in the worst way. I personally have fond memories of riding around in a friend's Z-28 cranking Black Sabbath on the 8-track. ![]()
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