My thoughts: I like it, but only as a novelty, but I wish the new Cassette Decks supported Metal Tapes with Dolby-S like what Techmoan demonstrated or even better, a new noise reduction system because we do have newer technology now along with more features like bluetooth paring. I think analogue is objectively inferior to digital when it comes to audio as far as fidelity, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like the novelty of the format and feel it shouldn’t reach it’s maximum potential.
But what do you guys think?
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My only thoughts are, "Why?", and "What's the point?".
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enjoy using a pencil to rewind it
ill stick to clicking
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Well, I think it's better than vinyl and I'd like to try dictating with it and I think analogue for audio engineers is a very good learning tool because it teaches you how to work with what you have (of which there isn't much in analogue) and that's about it.
there is a reason there isnt much analogue stuff anymore. it doesnt last as long as digital
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Cassette recording was fun. I never considered it super hi-fidelity, but it was pretty good if one used good tapes. Cassettes were for listening in the car. I would always buy new music on vinyl, play it once to record a cassette and then listen to the tape, in order to preserve the record. All of my old tapes have gone bad due to stretching.
I loved setting levels, doing test tracks and making mix tapes for road trips.
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Oh, that comment would trigger Vinylheads. "But digital doesn't last longer, hard drives die and computers get viruses and burned discs get disc rot faster than pressed discs. Real music comes from real grooves making the music sound groovy. Now if you excuse me, I have to listen to my real music on vinyl that came from a non-vinyl source"
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What I like about cars with cassettes, it's easy to rig in AUX with a cheap adapter and if your stereo was CD only, your only way to listen from your phone would be going through the radio via a FM transmitter or replace your stereo.
That is what I have in my Subaru. The cheap cassette adapter is tons better than the $100 Apple wireless adapter I first used with my iPod. I have a HTC One M8 Harmon/Kardon edition now with JL Audio speakers and a Sony amp. It's a low budget home built car stereo but it sounds really good with a phone going through my cassette.
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100 years from now I bet you can still find Van Halen on YouTube or whatever it is at that point. Be pretty hard pressed to find a vinyl. As awesome as that ablum cover is they don't last long.
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Well, there's also the possibility of an EMP caused by a nuke or solar flare, but if that ever happens, the archival of music is the least of your problems ;)
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I'm pretty sure the vinyl is soft when they press it.
Finding vinyl isn't hard, finding vinyl that isn't scratched is hard.
It would have to be running for that to work on an hdd but it would fry an ssd. And umm how you going to play you're vinyl?
OMG I actually have a box of old cassette tapes from the old days probably havent listened to them for 20years or more..
You know what's going to happen next, don't you?
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lol This comes as quite the coincidence because just yesterday I was considering buying a cassette player for the two cassettes I have on the way in the mail xD
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Except for headphones, I rather have the Analog Sound, Digital headphones (via USB or Bluetooth/Wireless) sound shitty compared to the 3.5 mm Audio Jack headphones. Although the recent pair of USB headphones I got for around $30 was decent. Other than that, Analogue was pretty much rendered obsolete.
Yeah no shit
get a decent pair of any headphone and you cant tell the difference.
and its not obsolete at all its great but not for storage.
