LGR Oddware: The 5.25" PC Cassette Tape Deck! Plusdeck 2c

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  @jessieo5757 · 3 years ago

  I'm shocked the record industry survived this technological marvel.

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  @2405mms · 3 years ago

  I was the engineer who repaired this product. <br>It&apos;s a new feeling to see it after so much time has passed.

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• IR

  @IronClad_Soup · 3 years ago

  I half expected Techmoan to pop out of the woodgrain at some point. Always love an oddware episode!

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  @TheRailroad99 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I think the recording version would have been AWESOME in the early 2000s. In 2000, almost all cars still had tape players. Recording them was a kind of lengthy process (setting up the deck, adjusting the level, preparing a playlist, monitoring it).<br>With this you should have been able ( not sure how they implemented the S/W) to just drag a few files on the App, it should be possible to automatically arrange them for best use of both sides (in theory it should even be able to apply EQ by recording test tones to the tape, rewinding, and then auto adjust the sound output EQ), click go and just walk away / do something else on the PC. Would be super convenient for quick tape recordings to be later used in a car. Almost like an analog flash drive.

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• AU

  @aussiepunkrocks · 3 years ago

  I&apos;d love to see a beige large server tower filled with all these oddware 5 1/4&quot; drive bays.. speaker... crt...cig lighter..vu meter ... would be great!

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• RO

  @RogueAgent007 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;d like to see someone build a 2000-2005ish tower, big as it can be, with maxed out 5.25 slots of all the silly items, all functional. That would be impressive.

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• RA

  @Raveheart · 3 years ago

  Also odd that it appearantly records in 44.1KHz 8 bit stereo. Did a quick calculation because when you played that clicky WAV recording in Winamp, it showed 705kbps where it should have been 1411.

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• HA

  @HanMasho · 3 years ago

  Man, Anders Enger Jenson sure knows how to play the game. He gets so much free publicity from pretty much every retro/tech YouTuber around.

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  @Mercgribern · 3 years ago

  Man, a cup holder AND a tape deck? This thing has all the features!

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• GA

  @Gadgetman1989 · 3 years ago

  As much as an audiophile my pop was, he still had his old Sony dual tape deck wired into his computer with some proprietary software he had for his cassettes, but had an ION record player that was also wired in, and this.... This would have been a godsend to him... RIP pop, hope I&apos;ll get your reel to reel working someday soon and can play your reels soon

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  @TriangIe · 3 years ago (edited)

  I actually have a 2c and the software works perfectly on Windows 11 with a good ol’ USB to serial converter and a usb sound card. I actually quite like it. It’s cool listening to all my dads old classic rock tapes through my pc while I work.

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  @KingBat · 3 years ago

  Converting my cassettes to CD sounds like something I’d actually do.

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