"We're baaaack!"
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MakeMineVinyl
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This is distressing, since cassettes were never a medium good enough for fidelity even approaching that of the (good) vinyl of the day. No matter what the fancy tape formulation might be, 1 7/8 inches per second tape speed it far too low to avoid severe saturation problems, distortion and too much noise. Noise reduction devices have their own problems which in many cases is worse then the hiss.
I would go so far to say that even mp3 files can sound significantly better than cassette.
Cassettes may have been good enough for mix tapes to be listened to in the car (which I did while in college), but that's about their limit.
Maybe the hipsters will finally discover horses as a mode of transportation and we'll have to deal with massive horse shit.
People are insane.
I would go so far to say that even mp3 files can sound significantly better than cassette.
Cassettes may have been good enough for mix tapes to be listened to in the car (which I did while in college), but that's about their limit.
Maybe the hipsters will finally discover horses as a mode of transportation and we'll have to deal with massive horse shit.
People are insane.
MakeMineVinyl
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Don't give them any ideas.
I got pretty good results with higher-end blank tapes recorded from CDs on a Nakamichi tape deck back in the day.
I just realized that, adjusted for inflation, those tapes I used back then would cost around $10/each and that Nakamichi tape deck would be over a grand. That is a hell of a lot of money to spend just to get something that sounded acceptable. Fortunately, I worked at a high-end audio store and didn't have to pay to use the Nak.
I did the same thing. Used to play an album once to record it and then for everyday listening used the cassette rather than put wear on the vinyl.
I had a Studer cassette deck I picked up when a radio station in my town shut down that worked really damn well (it weighed a ton with a massive flywheel for the capstan). It also self-calibrated to whatever tape brand I wanted to use. I made copies of my favorite LPs in full (I didn't do mix tapes, though I did often fill the end of a tape with similar music as the LP I copied if there was space left). I only used the tapes when out and about - in the truck, with my Walkman, or whatever. When at home I listened to LPs or Reel-to-Reels.
I had that very conversation last night when I was discussing this thread with a buddy.
MakeMineVinyl
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We would probably have trouble identifying some articles from the 1940s; its a passage of time thing.
