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KamenRiderBlade
08/22/19 3:30:37 AM
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SiO4
08/22/19 3:32:58 AM
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Not particularly because TBH the sound quality can be compromised on them very easily.
I used to be rather anal about what devises I would put a tape in.
Having said that, I still have all my cassettes.
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SpiralDrift
08/22/19 3:35:34 AM
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Nah.

FLAC at home.
OGG on my phone.
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butthole666
08/22/19 3:43:52 AM
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They never went away lol
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biggernails
08/22/19 3:49:41 AM
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no. i dont miss analog that much
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SpiralDrift
08/22/19 3:50:30 AM
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VioletMassacre posted...
and I will never understand why CD sales are declining while inferior formats are increasing.

People have gotten used to listening to 128 kbps audio over youtube and either can't tell the difference or just don't care.
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AlisLandale
08/22/19 3:52:48 AM
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VioletMassacre posted...
If I had the money I would've already had a bunch just for collecting. There's literally no reason to use it for actual listening, and I will never understand why CD sales are declining while inferior formats are increasing.


Because we are, ultimately, a vane species that values trendiness.

CDs will come back eventually.
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SiO4
08/22/19 3:54:41 AM
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AlisLandale posted...
VioletMassacre posted...
If I had the money I would've already had a bunch just for collecting. There's literally no reason to use it for actual listening, and I will never understand why CD sales are declining while inferior formats are increasing.


Because we are, ultimately, a vane species that values trendiness.

CDs will come back eventually.


Someone stole all my car music CD's out of my car a few years back. V_V
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AlisLandale
08/22/19 3:56:55 AM
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SiO4 posted...
AlisLandale posted...
VioletMassacre posted...
If I had the money I would've already had a bunch just for collecting. There's literally no reason to use it for actual listening, and I will never understand why CD sales are declining while inferior formats are increasing.


Because we are, ultimately, a vane species that values trendiness.

CDs will come back eventually.


Someone stole all my car music CD's out of my car a few years back. V_V


Thats major sux :/
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KamenRiderBlade
08/22/19 3:58:17 AM
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I still want a improved version of MiniDisc.

That would be the ultimate format for music.

Imagine what Blu-Ray level data storage in a MiniDisc can do and how much music you can pack or next gen Blu-Ray like "Archival Disc" with higher data density fitted into a MiniDisc format can do.

Imagine having all 85 CD's of Beethoven's works reproduced by your favorite Orchestra recorded in lossless 32-bit FP | 96 kHz FLAC audio format.

Or having all of Michael Jackson's work taken in from Studio masters and properly recorded into higher quality onto the new format.

Or having all of "The Beetles" works and put into this new format with new remastering.
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Old NoiseTank
08/22/19 3:59:30 AM
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nah Im good with vinyl.
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SiO4
08/22/19 3:59:46 AM
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AlisLandale posted...
SiO4 posted...
AlisLandale posted...
VioletMassacre posted...
If I had the money I would've already had a bunch just for collecting. There's literally no reason to use it for actual listening, and I will never understand why CD sales are declining while inferior formats are increasing.


Because we are, ultimately, a vane species that values trendiness.

CDs will come back eventually.


Someone stole all my car music CD's out of my car a few years back. V_V


Thats major sux :/


Ya I does. Particularly in the summer time.
Odd thing is it was 2017 or something like that. Like stealing CD about 20 years too late.
The CD book was one of the longest running items I owned that was in continues use.
I bought that in the 90's.

Of coarse, I had a good wool blanket and two Bosch unsued wiper blades that would probably get you more on Ebay. smh
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KamenRiderBlade
08/22/19 3:25:17 PM
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Bump
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DeadBankerDream
08/22/19 3:25:54 PM
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Since I dont live in Eastern Europe, no I'm not.

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Error1355
08/22/19 3:26:02 PM
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Vinyl is cool and the sound isn't bad.

Cassette is just shit in all aspects.

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Damn_Underscore
08/22/19 3:27:58 PM
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I would rather use a cassette tape than a CD in a car
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Smashingpmkns
08/22/19 3:31:14 PM
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Vinyl makes sense because the sound quality is better, and there's an experience attached to listening to vinyl. Cassettes are and were always trash and massively inconvenient.
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HypnoCoosh
08/22/19 3:31:31 PM
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This makes no sense.

Vinyl is objectively superior to all other formats.
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gguirao
08/22/19 3:32:38 PM
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No.
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Giant_Aspirin
08/22/19 3:32:49 PM
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not even a little bit. cassettes offer nothing outside of being hipster trendy
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slimfizzle4
08/22/19 3:33:16 PM
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Plebs bring back the grooved wax cylinder
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Ultima Dragon
08/22/19 3:37:42 PM
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Literally why? Lol.

Vinyl I get for collectable purposes, for perceived "warmer" sound, or whatever.

What advantages or perks do cassettes have? Other than "lol I'm totes old school! Only 90's kids remember these!"
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HypnoCoosh
08/22/19 3:40:12 PM
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Ultima Dragon posted...
perceived


I'm an avid audiophile and can attest that vinyl is objectively superior than any other audio medium. However, I will say that most people don't have the money, patience, or skills to build and tune a proper system.
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PsychicHippo
08/22/19 3:47:39 PM
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I don't know if they are "coming back" but I'm a huge Madonna collector and know that the collector's box edition of her new album comes with a cassette tape, which I thought was both odd and cool. I doubt we will see them on the shelves at Walmart anytime soon, but yeah, I can see some of the more hardcore collectors grabbing them up.
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Hanky_Bannister
08/22/19 3:56:41 PM
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sound quality is crap

this is pure nostalgia
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Master_Bass
08/22/19 3:57:36 PM
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No, cassettes are trash and they naturally degrade. I'll stick with my FLAC files.
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pogo_rabid
08/22/19 3:57:57 PM
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Cassettes are objectively worse than CD's, Vinyl, and digital.

Their only benefit was small formfactor and cheap cost. Anyone choosing a cassette out of desire rather than necessity is doing so because it's fashionable.
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mooreandrew58
08/22/19 3:59:56 PM
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I get records. I like the sound of a record playing. But cassettes? Really? They where horrible compared to CDs and outside being sorta portable have nothing over a record.
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pogo_rabid
08/22/19 4:00:40 PM
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mooreandrew58 posted...
I get records. I like the sound of a record playing. But cassettes? Really? They where horrible compared to CDs and outside being sorta portable have nothing over a record.

As they age and the gears wear down, you get that beautiful rattle from the deck as it plays.
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The Top Crusader
08/22/19 4:00:42 PM
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I think I still have most of my cassettes somewhere (or they are in my parents' basement or something), but I'm not sure if I even have a working cassette player anymore.

They were cool at the time and I would still use them for quite a few years after CDs took over for like in my old car and to mow the grass or go for a run or whatever because a Discman would skip too much. I'd just record from CD's onto tape all the time, lol.

But yeah, it's a little past time to move on. They maintained a certain level of accessibility and convenience through the early 00's, but now a cell phone makes all of those features useless.
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Rikiaz
08/22/19 4:01:46 PM
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I collect music, but vinyl is great to have and to listen to, cassettes are just cool to have, they're pretty bad to listen to.

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Jiggy101011
08/22/19 4:04:12 PM
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Vinyl I understand as you can still buy the equipment but what car comes with a cassette tape player?
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KamenRiderBlade
08/22/19 4:07:20 PM
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Master_Bass posted...
No, cassettes are trash and they naturally degrade
Vinyl Records degrade with usage as well, so similar flaw compared to any of the modern digital mediums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_record#Preservation
As the playing of gramophone records causes gradual degradation of the recording, they are best preserved by transferring them onto other media and playing the records as rarely as possible. They need to be stored on edge, and do best under environmental conditions that most humans would find comfortable


HypnoCoosh posted...
I'm an avid audiophile and can attest that vinyl is objectively superior than any other audio medium.
I think you mean "Subjectively" over "Objectively".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_record#Shortcomings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_record#LP_versus_CD

I'm pretty sure many can and will make the argument that CD quality is superior to Vinyl Records, especially with scientific testing.
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Tyranthraxus
08/22/19 4:19:57 PM
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VioletMassacre posted...
If I had the money I would've already had a bunch just for collecting. There's literally no reason to use it for actual listening, and I will never understand why CD sales are declining while inferior formats are increasing.


CDs are inferior to Digital though, and digital is going up while CDs are going down.

The reason Vinyl is on the rise is because it is by far the highest quality physical product. The sound isn't actually as good as a CD but in terms of a look & feel thing, and how it's like to hold it in your hands and interactively do things like set the needle down on the turntable /feels/ good and you've got the covers with huge gorgeous art to look at. It's sort of the same thing as the physical game vs digital game argument. Some people just like to do things like open a steelbook and read manuals and shit.

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Tyranthraxus
08/22/19 4:23:15 PM
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KamenRiderBlade posted...
I'm pretty sure many can and will make the argument that CD quality is superior to Vinyl Records, especially with scientific testing.


The only time you will find a situation in which Vinyl is superior to CD for sound quality is if the LP is so old CDs didn't exist and could not be mastered digitally. Also this assumes no audio manipulation / upscaling. You'll find this with shit like 50s music and so on.

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a-c-a-b
08/22/19 5:04:48 PM
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butthole666 posted...
They never went away lol

This.

DIY punk and metal bands have never stopped putting out cassette tapes.
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HypnoCoosh
08/22/19 5:06:39 PM
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KamenRiderBlade posted...
I think you mean "Subjectively" over "Objectively".


No that's not what I meant.
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SiO4
08/22/19 5:10:52 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
KamenRiderBlade posted...
I'm pretty sure many can and will make the argument that CD quality is superior to Vinyl Records, especially with scientific testing.


The only time you will find a situation in which Vinyl is superior to CD for sound quality is if the LP is so old CDs didn't exist and could not be mastered digitally. Also this assumes no audio manipulation / upscaling. You'll find this with shit like 50s music and so on.


True some of the remastered stuff from say The Beatles and Pink Floyd, have things that I never really heard on their old records, which sounded just fine...as long as the vinyl was in good shape.
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ehhwhatever
08/22/19 5:26:12 PM
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I saw a cassette tape on a chair across the room and I couldn't figure out what it was.

I could care less about analog recording devices.
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Tyranthraxus
08/22/19 5:29:08 PM
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HypnoCoosh posted...
No that's not what I meant.


Then you're wrong. The resolution is awful on vinyl. You're essentially making the argument here that a CRT from the 90s has a better picture than an oled TV from 2015

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lightwarrior78
08/22/19 5:35:01 PM
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Why? I get vinyl for audiophiles and CDs for us that like ownership of shit, but cassettes are just lousy quality with the added benefits of being a hassle and easily damaged through normal use if the tape gets in any way out of alignment (lost so many cassettes eaten by the player).
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Sunburst
08/22/19 5:36:30 PM
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I collect cassette tapes. I'm glad they are coming back.
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Hexenherz
08/22/19 5:43:26 PM
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I still have my dad's cassettes that we listened to, 50s and 60s rock and roll/rockabilly. Don't have a player for them though :(
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pogo_rabid
08/22/19 8:07:25 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykViGlKHBaE" data-time="

Garbage technology. Collecting them is fine, but it's collecting a garbage media platform.
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PrettyBoyFloyd
08/22/19 8:17:29 PM
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About 10 years ago I had about 300 cassettes I've built up since the late 80s.

Left them with a girl I was living with at the time.

I travel light so I didn't want anything weighing me down when I moved around.

I mean were still distant friends, but I haven't asked about them.

Probably ended up at the pawn shop though.
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KamenRiderBlade
08/22/19 9:00:36 PM
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fenderbender321 posted...
Cassettes have always sucked.
If you had a proper cassette with a Type IV metal tape instead of Type I Ferric-oxide Tape or Type II Chrome Tape and got a recording from a proper master, it would sound pretty damn good.

Especially if you use the better Dolby Noise Reduction techniques.
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a-c-a-b
08/22/19 9:13:12 PM
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I mostly buy vinyl but I'll still buy a cassette if I like the band and it's the only format it's released on.

Last one I bought was the Nocturnal Scum demo and it's fucking badass.

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