SuperAvilyn
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With a good deck and good tapes, the cassette format can sound amazingly good. I have a Nakamichi CR-5 three-head, double capstan deck and switching from 'source' to 'tape', you really can't hear the difference between the source and the recording.
I have so many good memories from my teenage days when I was always fiddling with cassettes, I totally see why people have a soft spot for the cassette. It's a shame that many other people think of cassette as a crappy format. Yes, compared with streaming services like Spotify, the cassette is not very practical and the capacity of 90 minutes is of course hopeless in comparison. Yes, there have been many cheap and nasty cassette recorders and the tapes themselves weren't all great. But I don't think it's fair that cassette is now so often remembered for being noisy and having 'tape salad' all the time. Tapes can sound brilliant, even decades after recording, the better cassette decks are often impressive machines and the cassettes themselves are nice, collectible items full of nostalgia.
I have so many good memories from my teenage days when I was always fiddling with cassettes, I totally see why people have a soft spot for the cassette. It's a shame that many other people think of cassette as a crappy format. Yes, compared with streaming services like Spotify, the cassette is not very practical and the capacity of 90 minutes is of course hopeless in comparison. Yes, there have been many cheap and nasty cassette recorders and the tapes themselves weren't all great. But I don't think it's fair that cassette is now so often remembered for being noisy and having 'tape salad' all the time. Tapes can sound brilliant, even decades after recording, the better cassette decks are often impressive machines and the cassettes themselves are nice, collectible items full of nostalgia.