so a follow up, look you see, to the post what i started this veritable month off with.
to recap, to be sure. when faced with the cessation of my 22 year old walkman as a working concern i needed, for verk, to procure a new cassette tape player. in the first instance the selected replacement lasted substantially south of 22 years. some 12 or 14 hours, as point of fact, in total and not south.
having secured an argument and complication free refund for that disaster, off i went to the decidedly Greek named place called Argos to have a go with a different brand.
as one might suspect from a company which has branded itself in a way which invites likeness to Grecian concepts Agros offered a formidable range of cassette players for me to select from. of the two i went with the one which looked more like a walkman. this was because it takes AA (penlight, if you so wish) batteries, and does not require power from the mains. such is important as it cuts down on interference. also, it was cheaper.
the cost of this unit was £17.99, or if you like one penny south of £18. further, if that is how you think one should deal with monetary transactions, the cost was one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine coins minted with a face value of one pence each.
going to the Argos in town was nowhere near as pleasant an experience as it once was. this i suppose is comparable to going to Greece now rather than in Ancient times, although i have not been so i do not know. whereas once Agros was lavish, comfortable and pleasant now it is miserable. they have for some reason abandoned their own premises and have set up in a dark, dingy corner of a chapter of Sainsburys. no seats to sit on as you wait no more, and you have to battle through people buying an assortment of diary produce and sanitary items to get to things like cassette decks.
this bush cassette player has a number of features that i did not want and, frankly, have no need for. but now that i have them, well, who knows. illustrated above is that it acts as a quasi dictaphone of sorts. as in it has a built in microphone what you can record onto tapes through. quite useful for making notes, i suppose, or bootlegging concerts.
once i went through lots of blanks tapes, as my sister and then my Dad had a car what had a tape deck in it. they've since gone on to CD, so i have no use for the blanks i stockpiled. perhaps i shall use the recording function on this Bush deck to make a series of statements then. a bit like, i suppose, Kurtz out of Apocalypse Now, only recordings rather than broadcasts. or maybe i will just record myself saying "the horror...the horror" repeatedly.
although that said, if any of you reading this want a mix tape doing, i love making them. leave a message here, i guess, and we can discuss the matter via that "Google+" thing what this blog is unsolicited-like linked to.
one other feature is the smart telescopic aerial that it has. whereas quite a few walkman-like cassette players come with a radio few have such a feature on them what allows for proper radio signal reception. should some sort of disaster hit, then - by the creation of mankind or from nature - i will be able to secure hearing the transmissions of anyone else left alive. assuming that they have access to an AM (which was once called MW) or FM broadcasting equipment. that and that i would be able to get batteries too, i suppose.
extra features are lovely even when superfluous and not wished for, but what of the business end of this Bush cassette player, then. which is to say, how does it perform with its intended and highly desired purpose, the playing of tapes? very well. i cannot say "x" amount of times better than the other one, that "groove" thing, because the other one didn't play them properly at all.
all i can say is that the tapes play back properly, at the correct and consistently constant speed. does exactly what it is supposed to do, then, for £2.01 south of the one what failed to do this off of Tesco. so whilst Tesco might be the prettier and more comfortable shopping experience, Argos wins this one by selling stuff what actually works.
controversy here i come, then. or am already at, going on the picture above.
to, then, the delicate matter of which cassette to play first on this new Bush cassette player. once again i found myself moving away from my tradition of using Waltzinblack off of The Strangers, mainly as i do not have a tape of them handy. further, though, i have moved away from Intergalactic by Beastie Boys. and yes i can sense you sharpening those knives to stab me with.
frankly, enough. one of the most unpleasant and upsetting things of this year has been the ridiculous onslaught of abuse and attack, with baseless, unfounded accusations being made that i am "not a proper fan" of Intergalactic by Beastie Boys. as far as i am concerned, and i am very comfortable with this, i am as much of a fan of the song, and the splendid video, as i can be. no further shall i indulge presenting a defence of this.
which is how the first thing i tried out on this new deck was the cassette single of Fear, or if you like and should you be pedantic you will, F.E.A.R. by Ian Brown out of The Stone Roses.
above should be a clip of the tape playing on the deck through the solo speaker the player has on it. with that speaker being yet another feature i did not really want; the whole point of the device is that it should be heard via the headphone port. yes, Apple fans, i know you are confused by that - Google away and see what sort of port a headphone one is, since the Apple deny you its pleasures.
overall i would say that i'm perfectly satisfied with this Bush cassette player. the sound quality is great and the performance is exactly as it should be. this relates, of course, to playing tapes. i have absolutely no idea at this stage what it is like for recording on, or for that matter how the radio does.
yeah, that's me in an elevator, not so long after i had purchased this Bush cassette player. the picture is included as it showcases the other t-shirt what was first showcased in my partially celebrated "fashion statement" post last month. some of you might for some reason have wanted to see the shirts in action, so there you go.
right, well, i suppose it's best i get on with using this perfectly functional cassette deck, then.
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