Sand absorbes all the exess oil in your engine, just pour it in till no more will go and try n start the motor

 

oh i see, whats in there instead of it now?

 

Seriously folks - a quality metal cassette recorded on a good deck (Nakamichi, for example) with Dolby B or C will have sound quality indistinguishable from a CD in the high ambient noise environment of an automobile. And furthermore, a cassette recorded from an LP will sound infinitely better than the common 128 KBPS MP-3s stuffed onto a CD or played through an iPOD. Yes the new technology can sound better - but the fact is, as most folks use it, it does NOT. Unless your MP-3s are at least 192 MBPS, you are listening to garbage. Good equipment from the 1970s sounded much better than what most people listen to today. So much for progress.

 

That's why we should demand the return of 8 tracks. If I remember correctly, they don't need to be rewound because they are a continuous loop. And they sound much better than cassettes .

 

I'm serious. People think that just 'cause its digital, it must be good. On the contrary, full CD quality is 320 KBPS which is never found at the usual music download web sites. People pay a buck to download 128 KBPS garbage. And people who know still say LPs sound better than CDs because they are not digitized at the very low standard of 44.1 KHz ... roughly two data points defining the waveform for a say a cymbal on a drumset. If you know any math or physics, you know the truth of what I say.

 

Darn! I was planning on playing my 8-Tracks thru the Cassette adapter in my wife's 05 CPE 6MT when it arrives.

 

Actually, I agree with most of what Number2 said about MP-3s and digital in general. I have a lot of very good sounding LPs and some very bad sounding CDs. And MP-3s at high compression are missing a lot of the music. But 8 tracks were pretty bad-less width for the magnetic stripe for each channel and mechanically they left a lot to be desired in terms of speed stability. Also, the shifting of the playback head that was needed to switch tracks caused errors if there was a slight misalignment. Attempts at putting record players in cars were all unsuccessful, however (there really were some that were tried).