I was thinking on the way to work about the recent resurgence in vinyl sales and got to wondering why cassettes never seem to be so fondly thought of?
IMHO they were way the better than vinyl and arguably CDs... You could take your music with you where as CD Walkmans were useless, you could record and re record without having to buy special "recordable" cassettes, rewinding songs you were trying to work out on the guitar was easy compared to CDs/Youtube/Itunes etc..
Okay, so the audio quality wasn't as good as CD but I was listening to Nirvana not the 3 Tenors!
Thats my piece said, come join the revolution, i'm off to eBay to buy a Sony TPS-L2.......... Sorry, HOW MUCH!?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SONY-WALKMAN-TPS-L2/192837893185?hash=item2ce608bc41:g:NToAAOSwjrFcMSCr:rk:1:pf:1&frcectupt=true
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I know some bands are releasing material on Cassette - my daughter bought one recently.
The problem I had with them was the tape wearing out over time. And oh the joy when the thing got jammed in the car player and everything unspooled inside. Give me CDs any day.
I'm sure we'll see a cult appreciation of minidiscs in years to come.
I had a DAT machine when they came out, I really liked it but then the MiniDisc came out and superbly marketed it was and all was lost in the DAT department.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
I had (still got somewhere) a top of the range Teac cassette machine. It was so good I defy anyone to tell the difference between a Chrome bias recording and the LP I recorded it from. Bandwidth 22kHz, that's 2k better than CD not that I can hear it now though
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself