get onboard the wayback machine......

smoker · Post by **smoker** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:18 am

i figure only us older guys will remember this.......anyone remember the alpine cassette changer that preceded cd changers? held about 12 tapes and was the size of a small cooler........

71buickfreak · Post by **71buickfreak** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:35 pm

how the old school car alarms that were armed with a key, I had one in its original box in the stock room for years. had a little enclosed bell that rang when it was tripped. I also have (I think I still have it) a "dragon" car alarm system. these things let out white smoke when set off and filled the car. pretty cool. we use to set it off in the sub display room. filled the whole damn room.

Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:45 pm

smoker wrote:i figure only us older guys will remember this.......anyone remember the alpine cassette changer that preceded cd changers? held about 12 tapes and was the size of a small cooler........

I actually don't remember this, any pics?

That must have been one heck of a clunker piece of a equipment! (lol)

lotas · Post by **lotas** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:43 pm

71buickfreak wrote:how the old school car alarms that were armed with a key, I had one in its original box in the stock room for years. had a little enclosed bell that rang when it was tripped. I also have (I think I still have it) a "dragon" car alarm system. these things let out white smoke when set off and filled the car. pretty cool. we use to set it off in the sub display room. filled the whole damn room.

thats awesome :P

smoker · Post by **smoker** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:09 pm

i have looked for pics of this thing and cant remember a model name or exactly what it was called. i think 1987-1988 was the last year for it. i went to work at a shop in 89 and they had a couple left and yea they were pretty big. of course this was back in the day when noone serious was running clarion head units...they really sucked because of this cartridge you had to load the cd into and then load the whole shebang into the head unit...made it really heavy and skipped a lot..of course this was also in the alpine 7909's heyday and when rockford fosgate couldnt be bought at the same place that could sell you a vacuum or refrigerator...the old punch 30,45,75,150....man those things kicked ass..and you had to buy your components individually there were no fosgate sets to be had. you had series 1, punch series and pro series.......back then an alpine hu, fosgate amps and subs, fosgate midbass drivers and alpine components were the shit...the fosgate stuff kicked ass but the tweets were a little harsh. this was also the era of the mtx terminator boxes....aahh the good old days.......seen a lot of changes over the years and i still love the old stuff.

71buickfreak · Post by **71buickfreak** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:18 pm

how about Miami Bass? I love that crap. I still rock out to some Miami Bass Wars every now and then, when I fire up the cassette player on my clock radio, the only cassette player in the house! I got somethin old school for ya. I have a vintage MB Quart system tuning disc. its in German. and by disc, I mean the 14" kind. big, flat, single groove spirals from the outside to the inside, usually made of poly-vinyl blends......yeah its big ass record.

Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:43 pm

smoker wrote:i have looked for pics of this thing and cant remember a model name or exactly what it was called. i think 1987-1988 was the last year for it. i went to work at a shop in 89 and they had a couple left and yea they were pretty big. of course this was back in the day when noone serious was running clarion head units...they really sucked because of this cartridge you had to load the cd into and then load the whole shebang into the head unit...made it really heavy and skipped a lot..of course this was also in the alpine 7909's heyday and when rockford fosgate couldnt be bought at the same place that could sell you a vacuum or refrigerator...the old punch 30,45,75,150....man those things kicked ass..and you had to buy your components individually there were no fosgate sets to be had. you had series 1, punch series and pro series.......back then an alpine hu, fosgate amps and subs, fosgate midbass drivers and alpine components were the shit...the fosgate stuff kicked ass but the tweets were a little harsh. this was also the era of the mtx terminator boxes....aahh the good old days.......seen a lot of changes over the years and i still love the old stuff.

I was actually going to mention the ol 7909 in my last post, but forgot.

Ya those old punch amps, those are classic. I remember when I was first getting into this stuff, walking into an audio shop and they had an area dedicated to just fosgate and the 150 was the best of the best.

That must have been around 91-92 or so.

Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:10 pm

71buickfreak wrote:how about Miami Bass? I love that crap. I still rock out to some Miami Bass Wars every now and then, when I fire up the cassette player on my clock radio, the only cassette player in the house! I got somethin old school for ya. I have a vintage MB Quart system tuning disc. its in German. and by disc, I mean the 14" kind. big, flat, single groove spirals from the outside to the inside, usually made of poly-vinyl blends......yeah its big ass record.

OH ya I remember Miami Bass I used to think that stuff was soooooooo cool.

I'm trying to think of some of the other ones I like back then,
DJ Magic Mike first few albums were good, he actually must still be around. He has a website.
http://www.djmagicmike.com/
I used to just love 'Drop the Bass' (don't like the live version on the website tho)

Bass Patrol is another name that is sticking in my head.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001QFD/ref=m_art_li_10/104-9457226-0710331?v=glance&s=music

There was another one I used to listen too alot, but can't remember the name.

This sure brings back memories of poping in the 'TAPES' and listening to these over and over and over again.

71buickfreak · Post by **71buickfreak** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:21 pm

I have miami bass wars and that thing is WORN OUT. I used to pump it as loud as it could o while sitting in the drive through. what a jackass.

71buickfreak · Post by **71buickfreak** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:28 pm

I also still have my first bass cd. it is illegal bass with the girl bendind over with the thong up her buttocks with the wall of 10"s on the cover. ahhhhhh, really struggling to reach the 16-24 male demographic. pretty hard to do with bare-assed girls bending over on bass cd's. goood times. Remember the subs with the black cones and white silhoette of a guy with a cane? what were those called? mystical or majestics something like that.