Played Dire Straits debut album last night - from a Maxell XL 2s cassette recorded from the vinyl over 30 years ago. Best sound I've heard on my system in months. I have the SACD, but doesn't have the organic sound from the tape/vinyl. Dig out your old cassettes!
Eggs ackley! CD quality can be generally defined as thin, honky, bass-shy, compressed, generic, irritating, two dimensional, boomy, congealed, and like papier-mâché.
I can get technical, but can you do so? Do you know the definition of dynamic range? I don’t think so. It is obvious from your post that you cannot differentiate between the dynamic range of the song and the dynamic range of the medium.
And don’t get me started about tape being a “natural medium”—that is nonsensical audio jargon.
Really. Anyone who was there in the 70s and 80s knows cassettes were always second fiddle to vinyl. There were many good quality cassette decks capable of making respectable but relatively noisy copies of good source material (as long as not too much dynamic range in the source) however most commercial cassette recordings were relatively poor quality. Not to mention delicate and not meant to stand the test of time. The best larger format hifi VCRs in the 80s were much better. I still have some very nice recordings from an Akai hifi VCR I made back then and the sound quality holds up. I also still have cassettes I recorded in the 70s which sound no better than then if they will still even play without jamming.
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