There is a really good documentary on Amazon Prime titled: Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/cassette-a-documentary-mixtape |
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That was a heck of a deal. And yes, it is a pretty good basic deck. I do believe cassette tapes *can* rival *some* vinyl. Can, but not always. In fact, in my short re-experiance, rarely in a couple cases where I have copies of both. As in everything, it depends on many many things. The quality of the the mastering by the label for its release being the most important things (for non at home recordings) for cassette format, IMO. But, depending on the pressing, that is true for versions of a vinyl album too, and yes, CD’s can have the same issue. Of all my tapes, a couple that particularly stick out to me are The Modern Jazz Quartet’s - No Sun in Venice & Concorde, Wayne Shorter - Best of Wayne Shorter, Billie Holiday - All or Nothing at All, Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Further Out...and there are many others. These are mentioned off the top of my head. I purchased quite a few jazz albums on cassette prior to, or right around the time CD’s first came out. And those are the ones I am most pleased to have ’back’ in rotation. Yes, I could replace all of these, and many more, on vinyl or CD, and have/did in some cases, but there really is no need to do so with many cassetes back in my collection, and recordings that still please me. |
Just felt the need to share this as it is both amusing and a delightful to myself both at the same time. I felt the need for some music in the garage where I clean all my records and other tasks. I remembered that I had an old Sony "boom box" up in the loft so dragged it down , plugged it in and lo and behold music issued forth on FM radio, it even still had all the local stations stored! As this is old it has both a CD and tape player as well. Popped open both drawers and was in shock. There sitting in the tape well was a blast from the past indeed. A copy of a cassette ep single of our band back from the 90,s. I always wondered what had happened as I had the empty case in the house. So I had to play it and it still sounds good to my ears. It's on a tdk c15. Must have been popular back then as can't remember seeing any for sale of late. So just very happy at this find and yes maybe clouded by rose tinted spectacles in this instance! 😎😎 |
