/r/vintageportableaudio
A subreddit for vintage portable audio with a focus on the best, most interesting and most beautiful portable cassette players, boomboxes, CD players and Headphones. Or show us your best crystal radio flex. I duno, what ya got?
Posts about other vintage portables, portable reel-to-reel, recommendation advice, repair suggestions, experiments, projects and other related things are welcome!
A subreddit for vintage portable audio with a focus on:
Portable cassette players
Boomboxes
Portable CD Players
Portable focused headphones (can be well paired modern ones)
Hi-fi is cool but if you have something like a rare tape format, a nifty portable TV or a crackly old transistor radio we want to hear your stories! Please share a lot and often, we aim to be an open, flexible and inclusive community for anything related you want to share.
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If if is not your own image please add a comment about where you found it
Be amazing to each other, allow yourself to be open to discovering beauty or function you may not have noticed otherwise, and remember that it is far more satisfying to boost people up than tear them down
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Hi I got some old ipods, the square shaped one, not the long, rectangle version. I copy/pasted some mp3s on there via usb cable, but I can't get the music to show up? How do I do it? I only have a PC. Looking for free alternatives to Itunes windows.
I had a silver/blue Philips boombox with a cassette, cd and radio in the 00's. I want to get one of the same models again but I cannot find the right model. It had a bassboost switch on the top, a blue volume knob and a blue switch for tape/cd/fm. In looks it was quite close to a Philips AZ1575.
I've been looking at getting my girlfriend an 160gb 7th gen ipod classic.
Thing is I don't remember them coming in different colors.
So if it's a colored one does that mean it's been modified already?
Or did apple produce a bunch of different colors later in the run?
Hi I would like a brand/product recommendation for a simple mp3 player. I know the smartphone has replaced this tech, but I would still like an old fashioned mp3 player (no bluetooth). I want to use wired headphones at the gym. Looking for a good quality sound, good volume, small size. All I could find is Sandisk, but the reviews aren't the best. https://www.amazon.ca/Sandisk-8GB-Clip-Player-Black/dp/B00VXMY262/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
Not truly vintage, since I plan on using these in my car. I have an FM transmitter but its utter garbo and relies me to use my phone and honestly I'm more of a physical button than a touchscreen dude.
Anyway, so I'd like to get some of my digital audio onto cassettes. Unfortunately looking into brick and motar stores, they are virtually non-existent now, vinyl shops don't give af about cassettes and online searches results in shitty walkmans and cassette -> MP3 convertors, with very few offering at the very least a 3.5mm input jack, but according to reviews I've looked at they're all utter garbo.
So here I am consulting a random community that I didn't know existed until now.
TL;DR: I want a (not too expensive, but not garbage) method of recording digital audio to cassettes.
national panasonic sg-2080l Hi looking for a spare knob for this system please thanks
It was released in 1986 I believe and came with an optional linear power supply.
On uhf a signal with an approximate signal strength of -80 dbm goes colorless but is surprisingly clear. The audio is almost totally quiet.
It isn't until you get a SNR of 15 db on the rsp1a for the video signal (-85 dbm) that the picture get very grainy and the audio is very staticy.
like most 80s tvs it does emit radio energy. A GE superradio of any kind of moderate signal will suffer buzz on am when this radio is in the room. It also seems to conduct rf energy via the wiring on 550 khz when on. As soon as the tv is turned off no rf is given off.
The power supply still gets a little warm as linear power supplies are wont to do.
In the 80s this might have prompted people to turn off the tv when listening to am radio.
I have a local guy who's been doing this work since 79', but he's having a tricky time apparently with the auto stop for playback on my unit. It's been very difficult finding anyone that works on these units. I live in Massachusetts, but I'm certainly willing to ship. Is there anyone out there that works on these?
Thanks in advance.