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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2019 7:12:43 GMT
I never liked cassettes with all that rewinding trying to find a favourite song and I always thought the sound quality wasn't very good. IMO vinyl and then CD's were much more "instant" and sounded far more "alive". I never bought many pre-recorded cassettes but did buy blanks to do my own mixes for the car. I still like to listen to CD's and am slowly getting together another vinyl collection (my first wife took all my original stuff, well over 100 albums, to the charity shop when we got divorced). I just find the price of vinyl is rather prohibitive compared to a CD nowadays with a typical CD being less than a tenner and the vinyl version being around £20-25.
I cant get used to just listening to stuff on youtube, alexa, spotify or the like, I much prefer to have an actual CD or record.
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Post by trentvale68 on Feb 2, 2019 13:06:02 GMT
Cassettes were always poor quality but like you say you could make a mix tape. This vinyl thing though there's just no way I'd replace all my cds again with vinyl when I already did the reverse some 30 years ago. It's a bit of a con.
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Post by callas12 on Feb 2, 2019 13:48:06 GMT
How cool were walkmans to listen to all them tapes back in the day?!
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Post by partickpotter on Feb 3, 2019 11:07:24 GMT
C30, C60, C90 Go.
You could say!
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Post by trentvale68 on Feb 3, 2019 13:46:39 GMT
I used to find with tapes that as they aged, you'd find after they played, they left a white residue on the heads. Audio quality constantly comprised, forever had to get the head cleaner out grrrr. Taking sentiment out of it, cassettes were pretty shit apart from the recording option. Cds were like a gift from God. Will never, ever part with them although for a variety of reasons the rate I buy them has drastically slowed over the past 5 years. I think I bought something like 2 or 3 last year. Theres a small core of half a dozen bands that I'll still buy the latest but many other bands I used to like or even still like, I just rarely bother. I've really got into the retrowave/darksynth genre and since I bought a new and better phone in December, I've downloaded nearly 600 tracks from YouTube (using Easy YouTube mp3)onto my phone. Imagine the concept of that back in 1985 when I had my first Walkman. Technology today is incredible for the music fan but I guess its terrible for the artist in fairness.
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Post by trentvale68 on Feb 3, 2019 13:51:47 GMT
How cool were walkmans to listen to all them tapes back in the day?! brilliant definitely but the limitations too, only 90 mins max, poor audio, having to turn cassette over, lots of mechanical parts that drained what were poor performance batteries anyway. Many tapes chewed up! Bulky headphones as well. Sentiment and nostalgia go a looong way.
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