Cassette tapes

[Shrek]

Fragile, inconvenient and low quality: Why are cassettes making a comeback?

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment.

www.abc.net.au

 

[matthewpianist]

It's nothing but a trend trip, and pretty insignificant to the vast majority of music lovers. It was a flawed format, chiefly useful for its portability both on foot and on the road, and although it could sound good using the right blank tapes and the right cassette deck, it's still compromised.

 

[Shrek]

I cant see the format ever making a comeback wonder where they get the data from .

 

[Al ears]

I cant see the format ever making a comeback wonder where they get the data from .

it has made a comeback..... Because some groups are making these available as a format
Not saying it will ever take off.

 

[manicm]

It's an abomination.

 

[Shrek]

I have to admit i made some mix tapes the other day from diffrent Albums it was fun i need to get some new blank metal tapes.

 

[ianrjones]

I usually buy quality old cars, and my last one had a radio cassette.
I now drive something a little newer, with a CD player. Like many here, we miss mix tapes. So I bought a Tascan CD recorder, just for the car.

 

[Din5]

Glad I've still got my old cassette deck

 

[Al ears]

Glad I've still got my old cassette deck

Sold mine only recently.....
Managed to convert my sole remaining self-recorded tapes to digital....

 

[nads]

Still playing cassettes and vinyl here.
Though currently listening to Raye on Spotify.

For people with cassette player’s cassettes are a lower cost option to other formats.

 

[matthewpianist]

I've got a NAD with Dolby S sitting in the garage, but I doubt it will ever see the light of day, apart from when we move - at which point it will be given away or sold.

 

[TK421]

A lot of new music is coming out on cassette as well as CD and Vinyl. Check HHV.de and there's a hell of a lot of tapes available proving that there's a market for them.
I still listen to tapes on a high end deck and the sound is very good. What's more recording onto a Type 2 ot Metal tape produces great sound quality (if the source is of good quality of course).

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Serial access, will deteriorate over time, limited fidelity. I can see the nostalgia, but no plusses otherwise.

 

[TK421]

I've found at lot of really high end decks at car boot sales and flea markets which I was never able to afford (as a young man) back in the day. Having access to a Revox or a Nakamichi proves that you can listen to tapes with high quality sound equalling that of other formats.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

you can listen to tapes with high quality sound equalling that of other formats.

I strongly suspect that measurements would say otherwise.

 

[TK421]

I strongly suspect that measurements would say otherwise.

I'm sure that if you run it through a lab, you'd be right. To my amateur ears, the sound quality is enjoyable.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

I'm sure that if you run it through a lab, you'd be right. To my amateur ears, the sound quality is enjoyable.

And that really is all that matters - I just think it's quite a stretch to state that cassette can be an equal of CD etc.

 

[TK421]

And that really is all that matters - I just think it's quite a stretch to state that cassette can be an equal of CD etc.

Record a CD onto a quality Type 2 cassette on a high end deck such as a Nakamichi and you'd be very close.

 

[Al ears]

Record a CD onto a quality Type 2 cassette on a high end deck such as a Nakamichi and you'd be very close.

No idea why you'd ever want to do that unless you still have a tape player in your car.
Recording onto inferior media, via whatever device, is always going to be detrimental.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

No idea why you'd ever want to do that unless you still have a tape player in your car.
Recording onto inferior media, via whatever device, is always going to be detrimental.

And you're condemned to serial access, tape wear etc.

I'm oot.

 

[Al ears]

And you're condemned to serial access, tape wear etc.

I'm oot.

understood.
they have had their day and i for one cannot understand any need to re-introduce this form of media

 

[nopiano]

Glad I've still got my old cassette deck

Me too, though its overhaul wasn’t cheap. A lovely thing to own, whatever one feels about the sound.

 

[TK421]

Me too, though its overhaul wasn’t cheap. A lovely thing to own, whatever one feels about the sound.

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Beautiful! If you ever want to sell that, look me up!