This is a cool hack and no sacrilege occured (destructively modifying a vintage 8 Track player). Excellent video and tutorial. Sure the audio quality of the cassette was superior and less hassle ...

Eight-Track Cartridges The Stereo 8 was a continuous loop cartridge with the tape always moving in the same direction. By the late 1980s, the more convenient audio cassettes replaced the 8-track ...

Well, I’m talking about when 8-track tape cartridges ruled our lives, and when listening to music could be a dreadful experience. “Dreadful” does not apply to the music, of course. It was ...

The 8-track is named for its quarter-inch tape that holds eight parallel tracks of sound. Just like in a cassette, a felt pressure-pad pushes the tape against a playback head in the deck.

WASHINGTON – AI regulation is in the hands of "JCPenney leisure suit"-wearing lawmakers who still have "8-track tape players," which could mean trouble, says one Republican lawmaker. Last week ...

Why the 8-Track Tape Kind of Sucked. Kids today, you don’t know how good you’ve got it. Imagine if you will listening to your favorite song and it just fades out in the middle of the track.

Yes, the cassette was better tan 8-track, but 8-track was incredibly popular. Endless low end stereos with players, lots of car audio that played them. Columbia House even had an 8-track tape club.

However, there are no 8-track players being produced today. The closest you can get is a refurbished version of the iconic Panasonic RQ-830S Dynamite TNT player, available on eBay for around $250.

“I must have made my mom buy it for me,” Rosenbaum explained. “I actually still have it, and it’s a beautiful sounding record. I think around that time I probably said, ‘I want real ...

TCS-68 is based on a channel from an 8-track machine that was released in 1990. It emulates the preamp, tape system and 3-band EQ from the original hardware. You can even throw in some hiss if you ...

“We wanted to leak some new music, but not on the Web,” Matschullat said, so they ordered a batch of 500 mix tapes from a small distributor in Florida and created artwork for the cassette case.