Share your cassette collection!

Nice thread! It was really great to go through all the photos of cassettes posted by different FMs. :)

Here are my Cassettes from my school and college days...

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Some eye candy from Mariah Carey's "Butterfly" cassette cover...

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It's fun to see my older tapes, how my taste in music has changed over the years. What I liked in my formative teenage years and what I listen to now. The musical journey.

And this is where the magic happened and cassettes were played on back then...

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On a National RX-CW54F Boombox which was bought in 1984 by my elder cousin from Singapore and passed on to me in 1994 when he moved on to a beauty of a Sony LBT series component system. For me though, this National boombox provided hours of happiness, going through school years listening to music on it. Almost 30 years later it still works and it still rests in my room... I could never part with it. Memories...
 
I am a fan of portable gadgets, however, I used decks for listening to cassettes in the past. Nowadays I only use walkmans for listening to the cassettes. Primarily I like Sony walkmans for their excellent sound quality. I am especially a fan of later Sony models, released primarily from 1995 to 2005. They are mainly built on plastic parts and most hated among serious walkman lovers. But I like them, because they are simple machines. Transports are very simple, straightforward, having very fewer parts that are arranged in a non-complicated way. Availability of belts for these transports is also easy. In general, these transports feature the "Anti-Rolling Mechanism", which mean that they are very less prone to speed variation during the movement of the walkman. I even run with a walkman in my pocket, the speed does not vary.

My present everyday walkman model for cassette listening is the Sony WM-EX182 from 1998. It is an identical machine to its sibling WM-EX172. The EX182 is a blue-coloured model and the colour is the only difference with EX172. EX182/172 features Dolby-B NR, Mega Bass Boost, Bass-Treble Control, Tape Type selector (Normal/Chrome/Metal) and Auto Volume Limiting System (AVLS). It does not possess Auto-Reverse and Radio. The electronics are made up of only three ICs. A SOC-like audio chip, Sanyo LA4582CM, handles all the functions of Pre-Amp, Tone-Control, Mega Bass and Amp. According to its datasheet, it can deliver up to 375 mW of power using a 16-ohm load with 0.04% THD (during Mega Bass ON). The other chip is the Dolby-B decoder, Japan Radio Corporation's (JRC) NJM2185A. Both the chips are the latest models of their respective semiconductor series (LA45xx & NJM2xxx) that Sony ever used in any of their consumer-grade walkmans, as per my knowledge (any input is welcome though in this regard). However, this kind of all-in-one IC design may attract the point of discussion, because many users might favour discrete IC design.

The third IC is Sanyo LB1979, which is the Motor-Driver. It runs a three-coil Disk Motor that provides a super smooth tape speed.

Here is a photo of the little guy...

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I was using Sony WM-EX304 along with Videocon walkman KT3112 ( the original earphones were great! )
Still in the shelf as "show and tell" Piece, but unpacking the cassette cartons will be a big project.
 
Just sharing my side of collection of Audio Cassettes.

They are blank but I do keep recording them in my studio which has around 25 the best ever tape decks in use and 23 odd in storage.
 

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Few models which are my favourite.
 

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