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  1. 27th November 2009 04:50 AM #1
    TheNewGuy TheNewGuy is offline

    Homebrew Car Cassette Adapter

    Howdy All,
    I haven't been on since school started, so I've been kinda busy.

    My mom has a cassette player in her car, she doesn't have a lot of cassette tapes, so I was thinking of getting her a Cassette adapter. But after some googleing, I've found a couple of articles on how to put together one yourself. But when I tried it with some copper wire I got out of an old bios speaker from a computer, I got ditto.

    I was wondering if you guys could help me out?

    The second link below said that you had to hook up resistors before the coil. But I was thinking since I was getting nothing, you probably want more power going through?

    Here are the articles I've been looking at:
    DIY: Car Audio Adapter
    DK LABORATORIES

    I cut up a headset, and each side of the headset had two wires on both sides one was copper and the other was a different color. I probably want to use the copper side?

    I can post pics of everything if you guys want.

    Thanks,
    -TheNewGuy
  2. 27th November 2009 05:15 AM #2
    Externet Externet is offline
    Hi.
    You need to disembowel a cassette and install a tape head in it, such way that will contact the player head, well aligned, spring loaded; and feed attenuated audio from your source.

    Or:
    COBY CA 747 - Car cassette adapter
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  3. 27th November 2009 05:22 AM #3
    TheNewGuy TheNewGuy is offline
    Quote Originally Posted by Externet View Post
    Hi.
    You need to disembowel a cassette and install a tape head in it, such way that will contact the player head, well aligned, spring loaded; and feed attenuated audio from your source.

    Or:
    COBY CA 747 - Car cassette adapter
    What kind of player head?
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  4. 27th November 2009 05:51 AM #4
    Externet Externet is offline
    A cassette tape player head.
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  5. 27th November 2009 11:44 AM #5
    TheNewGuy TheNewGuy is offline
    Quote Originally Posted by Externet View Post
    A cassette tape player head.
    So I get a player head, connect it to an aux jack directly? Then I should be fine? So now the trick is where to find a tape head.

    Is getting and using a tape head easier than the methods in the links above? It seems like it?
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  6. 27th November 2009 04:33 PM #6
    Sceadwian Sceadwian is offline
    Why waste your time? Cassette tape adapters cost less than 5 dollars.
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  7. 27th November 2009 05:14 PM #7
    audioguru audioguru is offline
    This Mickey-Mouse way of playing CDs through a cassette tape player will result in extremely boosted bass and the high frequencies reduced due to the tape playback equalization in all tape players. It will sound awful.
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  8. 27th November 2009 09:17 PM #8
    TheNewGuy TheNewGuy is offline
    Quote Originally Posted by audioguru View Post
    This Mickey-Mouse way of playing CDs through a cassette tape player will result in extremely boosted bass and the high frequencies reduced due to the tape playback equalization in all tape players. It will sound awful.
    Is this for cassette adapters in general, or just for this method of making your own adapter?

    I wanna see if I can make it by myself and save $15 (that is the cheapest I found it for), plus you learn more doing it.
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  9. 27th November 2009 10:42 PM #9
    audioguru audioguru is offline
    I showed you ther equalized frequency response of a cassette tape player. It boosts the bass very much. If your circuit does not correct the frequency response then it will sound awful.
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  10. 27th November 2009 11:13 PM #10
    tcmtech tcmtech is offline
    $15! For about double that you can buy here a good used CD player from the pawn shop or online.
    For the time and effort you will use to build an adapter you could work for someone doing basic chores and grunt work and make enough money to buy a good mid range CD/ MP3 player head unit.

    I picked up a good near new pioneer 2900 series head unit for $45 on eBay for my dad last summer. It works perfect and sounds way better than his factory tape deck too!
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