In the Yamaha shop the other day and saw they had a Venture S on the floor. Looking it over it is pretty much the same over several years. What surprised me was not only did it have the radio, but it had a cassette player, really cassettes!
And, it comes with CB and not just a cable to plug the iPod into but the iPod as we'll.
It was on the floor for around $16,500.
I still like the look of the 1700 better, but it makes you wonder why Kawa isn't doing the same. Except for the cassette player, although I still have a load of them.
Bob
.... ...I know what your sayin,, I have a entire wall in my basement dedicated to cassettes and vinyl, and 8 tracks.....yes I said 8 trax. now that I have a VOY12 I am really using all those OLD cassettes, on the road ...in between anywhere, those cassettes come in handy.....take 6 with me before leaving, and keep rotating them out. ol school works 4 me !!......
Crap......up until the 2003 fire I still had a box of 4 tracks and a couple of Muntz C-170 12 track players....I was in 12 volt audio when cassettes just came out.
Old, retired, high-end car audio installer/craftsman/fabricator. Started out with Leo's Stereo, when he had 3 stores in the 70's, and was still with him when he closed all 54, although I didn't do much hands on work by then. Then I went into competition car audio building, before I.A.S.C.A. and all that. Then went to the manufacturing side and saw the writing on the wall that the aftermarket for car audio was over and went into Public Utilities...........yup I'm OLD!
I still had my collection of cassettes when I got my Voyager about eight years ago. Either I didn't store them correctly or the Oklahoma weather was just too tough on them. The tape seemed to get pretty fragile and broke on several. A few others died when I decided to change them out while riding. The wind pulled the tape out sufficiently enough to convince me I would never be able to untwist and wind them back in. Soon, I gave up on using the player with cassettes. I bought an mp3 and purchased the music (most for the third time--8 track, cassette, and then cd), and plugged in a cassette adapter for the player. The sad part is I'm about to have to purchase my third mp3 player. The old 8 track and cassette players were much more reliable.
As with the rest of the old fogies, I've also got a fine collection of vinyl, tape and CDs. I had trouble with the tapes unwinding themselves in the storage compartment. Sticking hearing protectors in the tapes to stop this was a nuisance, and I didn't like the wire from the mp3 to the tape adapter. I'm happy with the solution I found using the tape shaped SD player I posted about back in Oct 2012. I bought it from Amazon, and it's the best $30.00 I've spent. ($20.00 for you Americans). It's actually a neat little mp3 player, shaped like a tape, that fits right into the tape player, without the connecting wire on a tape adapter. It accepts an SD card, has it's own rechargeable battery and controls and can be used independently with earbuds (included). It also comes with a remote, but this doesn't work when the unit is inside the player. I have found that a charge will last all day. The only drawback is that you have to remember to eject it and turn it off when you stop, as it has it's own power source and will continue to play. Obviously you can program as many SDs as you wish and carry them in your pocket, freeing up that left hand compartment.
Skibou wrote:As with the rest of the old fogies, I've also got a fine collection of vinyl, tape and CDs. I had trouble with the tapes unwinding themselves in the storage compartment. Sticking hearing protectors in the tapes to stop this was a nuisance, and I didn't like the wire from the mp3 to the tape adapter. I'm happy with the solution I found using the tape shaped SD player I posted about back in Oct 2012. I bought it from Amazon, and it's the best $30.00 I've spent. ($20.00 for you Americans). It's actually a neat little mp3 player, shaped like a tape, that fits right into the tape player, without the connecting wire on a tape adapter. It accepts an SD card, has it's own rechargeable battery and controls and can be used independently with earbuds (included). It also comes with a remote, but this doesn't work when the unit is inside the player. I have found that a charge will last all day. The only drawback is that you have to remember to eject it and turn it off when you stop, as it has it's own power source and will continue to play. Obviously you can program as many SDs as you wish and carry them in your pocket, freeing up that left hand compartment.
Thanks for the reminder that such items exist. I just placed an order for one @ Amazon. They are now less than $14.00 including free shipping.
Keith The Old Gray Fat Guy
96 Voyager XII
History: 82 CM450A;90 Pacific Coast; 82 FT500 Ascot; 76 CB550F;
?Ducati 350; ?Ducati Monza 250; ?Yamaha 200twin; ?Benelli 175; Benelli 125;
62Ducati Falcon50; 46Regal scoot
, I remember someone in my class who had one in their corvair, how fricken old are you 
