@toast_burner: They are cumbersome and not very practical. I'm not an audiophile. 44.1 16bit CD quality is fine with me. Im the kind of person that will listen to the same 30 seconds of a song on repeat- so having the needle-drop is very annoying. I don't care about vinyl at all
@toast_burner: They are cumbersome and not very practical. I'm not an audiophile. 44.1 16bit CD quality is fine with me. Im the kind of person that will listen to the same 30 seconds of a song on repeat- so having the needle-drop is very annoying. I don't care about vinyl at all
@toast_burner: I didn't say anything about whether other people like it. I will now: let this old technology go and lets all fucking move on. Cassettes are the worst. VHS tapes sucked. Tape sucks. Tape distortion and saturation are awesome. But I can synthesize that shit. I don't hate this vinyl resurgence, but Im always on my computer, or in my car, or on the go. Vinyl is useless. I need a digital media player.
@toast_burner: I didn't say anything about whether other people like it. I will now: let this old technology go and lets all fucking move on. Cassettes are the worst. VHS tapes sucked. Tape sucks. Tape distortion and saturation are awesome. But I can synthesize that shit. I don't hate this vinyl resurgence, but Im always on my computer, or in my car, or on the go. Vinyl is useless. I need a digital media player.
Why should we let it go and move on when it has an obvious advantage to CD's?
Yes. I miss cassettes. I don't miss Walkmans since I never used those. I still use VHS so I can't really miss it. You know what I miss, it might sound strange, I missed seeing the old broken cassette tapes on the side of the road, with the tape all out of the cassette and the a magnetic tape looking all shiny from the sunlight.
I've noticed that a lot of people are complaining that cassettes could get eaten by the player or degrade over time. That's true. But CDs get little scratches and skip over time. Really any medium would have some kind of issues where it wears out over time.
I've noticed that a lot of people are complaining that cassettes could get eaten by the player or degrade over time. That's true. But CDs get little scratches and skip over time. Really any medium would have some kind of issues where it wears out over time.
Aside from mishandling, optical discs in genreal are incredibly durable. If CDs are handled properly they won't scratch and if they are stored in their case properly they won't warp, especially when you factor in the anti-skip technology found in nearly all CD players nowadays which has been highly perfected.
@toast_burner: I didn't say anything about whether other people like it. I will now: let this old technology go and lets all fucking move on. Cassettes are the worst. VHS tapes sucked. Tape sucks. Tape distortion and saturation are awesome. But I can synthesize that shit. I don't hate this vinyl resurgence, but Im always on my computer, or in my car, or on the go. Vinyl is useless. I need a digital media player.
Why should we let it go and move on when it has an obvious advantage to CD's?
Not only that, but why should he care anyway. Advantages or not, if people prefer the way cassettes look or feel or sound, or if they like it because it reminds them of the old days, what does it matter?
@EPICCOMMANDER said:
@whipassmt said:
I've noticed that a lot of people are complaining that cassettes could get eaten by the player or degrade over time. That's true. But CDs get little scratches and skip over time. Really any medium would have some kind of issues where it wears out over time.
Aside from mishandling, optical discs in genreal are incredibly durable. If CDs are handled properly they won't scratch and if they are stored in their case properly they won't warp, especially when you factor in the anti-skip technology found in nearly all CD players nowadays which has been highly perfected.
CDs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cassettes
Oh, I didn't know that. I just know that a lot of the CDs that my family has skip a lot, I think part of that may be due to my parents and sister using the CDs in the car. I imagine all the bumps from driving can't be too good for the CD.
I've noticed that a lot of people are complaining that cassettes could get eaten by the player or degrade over time. That's true. But CDs get little scratches and skip over time. Really any medium would have some kind of issues where it wears out over time.
Aside from mishandling, optical discs in genreal are incredibly durable. If CDs are handled properly they won't scratch and if they are stored in their case properly they won't warp, especially when you factor in the anti-skip technology found in nearly all CD players nowadays which has been highly perfected.
CDs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cassettes
Oh, I didn't know that. I just know that a lot of the CDs that my family has skip a lot, I think part of that may be due to my parents and sister using the CDs in the car. I imagine all the bumps from driving can't be too good for the CD.
Well some of the first Compact Discs made were relatively poor in quality (the CD itself), but what you're talking about is probably a case (no pun intended) of those particular CDs not stored in their original jewel case. If CDs are stored for many years in one of those sleeved CD binders that can hold 50 of them, those do nothing to support the CDs themselves and they can leave the disc vulnerable to pressure that can cause them to bend or warp. Those binders should only be used for travel, otherwise, they should always be kept in the case.
I've noticed that a lot of people are complaining that cassettes could get eaten by the player or degrade over time. That's true. But CDs get little scratches and skip over time. Really any medium would have some kind of issues where it wears out over time.
Aside from mishandling, optical discs in genreal are incredibly durable. If CDs are handled properly they won't scratch and if they are stored in their case properly they won't warp, especially when you factor in the anti-skip technology found in nearly all CD players nowadays which has been highly perfected.
CDs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cassettes
Oh, I didn't know that. I just know that a lot of the CDs that my family has skip a lot, I think part of that may be due to my parents and sister using the CDs in the car. I imagine all the bumps from driving can't be too good for the CD.
Well some of the first Compact Discs made were relatively poor in quality (the CD itself), but what you're talking about is probably a case (no pun intended) of those particular CDs not stored in their original jewel case. If CDs are stored for many years in one of those sleeved CD binders that can hold 50 of them, those do nothing to support the CDs themselves and they can leave the disc vulnerable to pressure that can cause them to bend or warp. Those binders should only be used for travel, otherwise, they should always be kept in the case.
Yeah. That's probably the problem. Some of them are in the original case, some are in one of those binder things, some are also left loose in the little storage space on the side of the door.
I have CDs that I bought in 1992 that still play as pristine as the day the shrink-wrap came off. If you take care of them and handle them properly there's no reason (save manufacturing defect) that optical discs can't last for decades.
@whipassmt: You're telling me that a casual listener off the street can describe the audio quality disparity between tape and digital media? That's a joke. I bet you guys couldn't either.
@whipassmt: You're telling me that a casual listener off the street can describe the audio quality disparity between tape and digital media? That's a joke. I bet you guys couldn't either.
This is a conveniently vague statement. I use lossless compression for ripping, and I can say with 100% certainty that it destroys the quality of even a freshly made tape. Now if you use low-grade MP3 which no one in their right mind should be using with today's storage capacity for even a simple laptop, then and only then is it maybe comparable to a cassette tape.
@EPICCOMMANDER: Are you saying the casual music fan even knows what lossless mp3 is? No way, man. It's just mp3. People on this forum might be audiophiles or techies, but your mom/my mom are not. Casual listeners going to see Katy Perry at the Kiss concert have no idea. People can argue with me as much as they want, but the general music-fan public doesn't know anything about music technology.
@EPICCOMMANDER: Are you saying the casual music fan even knows what lossless mp3 is? No way, man. It's just mp3. People on this forum might be audiophiles or techies, but your mom/my mom are not. Casual listeners going to see Katy Perry at the Kiss concert have no idea. People can argue with me as much as they want, but the general music-fan public doesn't know anything about music technology.
I think you're missing the point I was trying to make, it doesn't matter what the listener knows about the files, a good quality MP3 totally eclipses anything you could conjure up on a tape. Also, I'm not an audiophile. Oh, and just so you know, women can never be audiophiles. I've never met one, heard of one, or seen any women even remotely care about the quality of their music. It's weird, but it's true.
@whipassmt: You're telling me that a casual listener off the street can describe the audio quality disparity between tape and digital media? That's a joke. I bet you guys couldn't either.
This is a conveniently vague statement. I use lossless compression for ripping, and I can say with 100% certainty that it destroys the quality of even a freshly made tape. Now if you use low-grade MP3 which no one in their right mind should be using with today's storage capacity for even a simple laptop, then and only then is it maybe comparable to a cassette tape.
I use lossless too, but it has always seemed to me that the quality of headphones makes the biggest difference.
Why would anyone miss them, your best bet is to take your tapes to a specialist and get them put onto CD's, i remember trying to find the track i wanted it took forever, was a annoying. and every so often the tape player would eat one, they wasn't very durable
I have always liked audio cassette boom boxes, Sony Walkman, and cassette decks. I am still making my own mix tapes with my Sony TCM-200DV portable cassette recorder and player. I will stick with audio cassette tapes for the rest of my life.
I would love to see new quality 1980s style audio cassette boom boxes come back to the production line without CD player, MP3 Player and USB. But use the same materials and made the same way as the cassette boom boxes did in the 1980s. Same way with audio cassettes 2 and 3 head quality decks. To me, audio cassettes sound better than MP3's do.
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