Do you remember your first 8 Track tape?

[Boxx]

 

It served it purpose well....

[totalcomfort]

Elton John, and still have a bunch I got at a garage sale.

Got a pretty good player still, drag them out sometimes just for kicks.

[CECAA850]

I remember when I went from 8 track to cassette in my car.  OMG, what a difference in clarity.

[Rick J B]

 

Deep Purple did Smoke on the Water

Foghat was an excellent band also

Well, the rock station here played em back to back so often, what'd ya expect.

 

Maybe it was Foghat "Slow ride" LOL.

 

 

IIRC, that would have been off "Fool For The City", which was my first 8-track tape.

[angusruler]

I remember when I went from 8 track to cassette in my car.  OMG, what a difference in clarity.

and good old Dolby noise reduction!

[Boxx]

 

I remember when I went from 8 track to cassette in my car.  OMG, what a difference in clarity.

and good old Dolby noise reduction!

 

 

And with the early units, all of your high's......

[Axz Hout]

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[The Dude]

I remember when I went from 8 track to cassette in my car.  OMG, what a difference in clarity.

Did you use high end speaker wire.

[muel]

... I was the first kid on my block to buy a cd player. It was 1984, I paid $400 for a single cd Yamaha. I still have my first cd, Pink Floyd The Wall.

Wow, that's familiar... I didn't get a CD player until August 16, 1986.  Paid $370 (I found the receipt a while back!) for a Yamaha CD-500.  Still have my first CD, Pink Floyd DSOTM.  I still think it sounds better than any digital versions I've heard since.

 

First 8-track was Boston.  

[garyrc]

Didn't have one.  Went from mono Lps to stereo Lps, took a detour through reel to reel 7.5 and 15 ips, then CD/SACD/BD. etc.  When, @ > 200,000 miles, I finally junked my 1966 Valliant -- that had no player at all -- I got an old Volvo that had to be started with a screwdriver ... but it had a cassette player ... that ate tape.  So I pretty much bypassed 8-treck.

 

Questions:  Did some 8 tracks have Dolby or similar?  Or, if not, did they have some kind of filter to mask the hiss?

Edited September 5, 2014 by Garyrc

[derrickdj1]

I missed to

the 8 track era.  I also missed the ice age, lol.

Edited September 5, 2014 by derrickdj1

[mungkiman]

http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Foghat+Smoke+on+the+water

[CECAA850]

I remember when I went from 8 track to cassette in my car.  OMG, what a difference in clarity.

Did you use high end speaker wire.

I honestly can't remember. I know it was a Realistic player. I hid it in the glove box of my 67 Dodge Dart.

[USNRET]

 

 

I remember when I went from 8 track to cassette in my car.  OMG, what a difference in clarity.

and good old Dolby noise reduction!

 

 

And with the early units, all of your high's......

 

didn't lose ALL my highs (without those I would not been able to stand the double tracking, dragging...)

Edited September 5, 2014 by USNRET

[ChuckAb3]

Marvin Gaye's Heard it Through the Grapevine. Oh jeez, was that my 4 track?? (For all you youngins' out there).

[USNRET]

Marvin Gaye's Heard it Through the Grapevine. Oh jeez, was that my 4 track?? (For all you youngins' out there).

Did you ever use a 4 track to 8 track adapter, just a capstan insert

[Sancho Panza]

a matchbook came in handy for those car decks...

[Rick J B]

I even remember what the gear was in my first vehicular system.

 

Craig under dash 8-track and a pair of roughly 6" Bass-48 speakers. All that high end stuff in a 59 Ford pickup.

[ChuckAb3]

 

Marvin Gaye's Heard it Through the Grapevine. Oh jeez, was that my 4 track?? (For all you youngins' out there).

Did you ever use a 4 track to 8 track adapter, just a capstan insert

 

No but if I'd been aware of it, I would have. I had a Craig under the dash unit in my '67 Mustang.

[Ceptorman]

Marvin Gaye's Heard it Through the Grapevine. Oh jeez, was that my 4 track?? (For all you youngins' out there).

I thought a 4 trac was a Honda!