1995? .... I keep this adapter for my old 2004 GM Truck .... and no I don't want bluetooth. The atrocious sound quality is nostalgic to me and reminds me of being a teenager.
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Yup! I have a drawer of these things because my brother & I used to fight over them. Still use one in my dad’s truck when I steal it from him.
Leave those air pods in your pockets kids. Nothing brings the heat like the annoying clacking of the auto reverse on a cassette deck, constantly trying to flip over a cassette that doesn’t flip, while matching the rhythm of your current jam.
... or the faded degraded sound of 'Appetite For Destruction' from the worn down cassette you've been playing over and over again for the past ten years.
keep it steady? did you neglect to install the shock absorbing plate?
My new hotness has a 30-sec anti-slip feature!
Not gonna be anti-slip when girls see it 💦
I'm still doing that in 2024. Get on my level.
I was using one of these, and then later a short-wave radio to play on my car radio that was too old for USB but didn’t have AUX-in either.
Hope your CD player had skip protection 😉
Na, forget CDs and check out my sweet minidisc player! Waaazaaaaaaaa!!??!
My first car had a cassette storage tray on the transmission hump. I made a mount for my portable CD that fit there, and ran the adapter wire underneath the dash. So fly...
These were so much better than the radio transmitters. That brief period where cars only had CD players, no AUX or Bluetooth was the worst.
That's new tech. I had a Radio Shack adapter to play cassettes that plugged into my car's 8-track system.
I was rocking one of these plugged into an mp3 player circa 2007-2010.
I had one of these and somehow it also picked up a radio station, so no matter what I played it'd be mixed with some random techno music
This shit blew my mind back in the day, much like how I can plug a dongle into my cigarette lighter and somehow Bluetooth my phone to my old ass stereo.
It's 1995!
And, now that I'm older,
stress weighs on my shoulders
heavy as boulders?
but I told yall, until the day that I die...
Thanks for reminding me. I always wondered how exactly those worked, so I looked it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH4n8fUjtLQ
I always found them so cool for some reason. Kinda felt like magic back then, which I guess magnetism is the closest thing to it anyway.
I still used one of these daily until at least 2009 to play music from my 2006 5th gen iPod video on my 1993 Buick regal because it sounded 100x better than any fm transmitter could produce at the time.
I literally just got my first portable CD player on Sunday. The sound quality is way better than my super cool DRM-free digital library.
The cassette player in my old car had a cover that was also a display panel. It folded out, then you put the tape in and flipped the cover back so it locked, then you could play.
Got one of these adapters to plug in an iPod. Stuck it in, then went to close the panel. The wire got in the way so it couldn't lock. No way to jam it without damaging the cable.
No return policy back then. It sat in the dashboard until the car died many years later.