Welcome to Hell, here's your 8-Track

Just remembered a guy (Roger) I occasionaly hung out with in the 80's.

He had an 8-Track player in his old Dodge Dart, but he only had "one" tape which was David Bowie "Diamond Dogs".

When we played darts @ Kings Head and The Cat and the Fiddle - Roger (born in the American South) pulled off a British accent that fooled the Bri'ts we were playing with.

He wasn't very good @ darts, but it was worth losing just to see/hear the show.

DeKay

Being that I'm an old relic, I can vouch for the 8-track.  I splurged on a quality player for my 72 240Z.  It far outperformed the cassette deck I had SQ wise.  It had an adjustable head and more power than the pos cassette deck I had.  It never gobbled a tape....unlike the cassette player.  If I'm correct, a wider tape gives better SQ?  I don't miss it.....but I do miss the 240Z.

Since audio cassettes seem to be coming back into favor, will we see a resurgence of 8-tracks, and maybe VHS for videos? 🤣

Amusing discussion. Next VHS vs. Beta. Audio cassettes were not a tape loops.

i remember working in a radio shack store in the late 70s. we took delivery of some new "clarinette" model 8-track compacts, put on a carpenters tape and were surprised by the vivid sound quality [better trebles than any cassette i'd heard up to that point] coming from those speakers, with an absolute minimum of background noise. they had another 8-track player in the store, one that recorded also and had dolby NR, it sounded thin and dull in comparison. so i figured that this had to be a happy accident of matching tape azimuth between the carpenters tape and the clarinette player.