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People still buying cassettes are doing it for the LoFi sound anyways. They know their market.
People who will spend $500 on a mediocre tape deck?
Wasn't Mini-discs music on a floppy? IN the US as s format mini-discs weren't very successful, but I used one in grad school. Put my CDs onto discs. Energy efficient, didn't skip, remote on the headphone extender cord and sounded great. The blank disks were fun colors. I have a mini home stereo with a minidisc changer, I tried a few recently and they still work. Mageneto Optical technology. MP3s killed them. People w…
I get the cassette thing because that was an audio format people used for albums, but in the 90s nobody released albums on floppy discs, so this is like all gimmick
> nobody released albums on floppy discs You're forgetting that for many people, part of their early exposure to music is music from within computer games , not just music released as standalone albums.
All traded on 5-1/2 floppies among friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQkPcPqTq4M ^above video got me started on vaporwave
Isn't this the album that started vaporwave as whole?
Daniel Lopatin: Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 (summer 2010)
Vektroid as Laserdisc Visions: New Dreams Ltd. (summer 2011)
James Ferraro: Far Side Virtual (fall 2011)
Vektroid as Macintosh Plus: Floral Shoppe (late fall 2011)
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Quality/higher-end cassette players for playing generally lo-fi music? Something's wrong here. I mean, in the article one guy says that he managed to compress and put 3 songs onto 1 floppy and was satisfied with the listenable end result.
Maybe it was all 8-bit?
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>A Type IV "metal" tape with Dolby S and recorded using HX-Pro can sound seriously good We had one of those 3 head tape decks growing up. The one we had a yamaha with dolby hx-pro,b,c and dbx. We used to tape cds and try to a/b compare them. The 3 heads were erase, record and play, which meant you could monitor the recording as it was happening and adjust levels and such. (and results in the weird behavior of the "ta…
DBX was really cool, there were also DBX-encoded LPs available for a while. Unfortunately it also made the recordings sound absolutely horrible if your player didn't support DBX (as you noticed), so it was a massive failure. The days of physical media for music are generally over, but I just feel cassette tapes could have been so much better than they ended up being.
Its hard because once a format is entrenched, unless its backward compatible with the previous media...
The market did try to make a better cassette in the late 1980s/early 1990s.. The "Digital Compact Cassette". they competed with Sony's "DAT" (Digital Audio Tape).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape
You are right though, at this point digital is king. Its weird thinking back to a time when music was physical, took up space and you had to think about what to play next (and have it with you). You were sort of stuck with the music you brought with.
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I was disappointed that the floppies didn't contain mods (tracker music).
music as C64 software: https://www.goto80.com/floptrik
> Cassette players, they’re not really manufactured anymore, and the prices are going up on used ones Tascam just released a new deck cassette player, with USB: https://ask.audio/articles/tascam-announces-202mkvii-dual-ca...
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They probably mean quality cassette players. Even that Tascam is made using standard cheap mechanisms, it only has the most basic noise reduction (Dolby B) and no tape type selection. To even come close to justifying its $500 price tag, it should have a proper high-quality direct drive 3-head mechanism, Dolby B, C and S, as well as HX-Pro, at the very minimum to take the cassette tape seriously as a medium for music.…
Nobody buys a cassette today because they are looking for the highest quality possible, the most pristine reproduction. I would even venture to say that a distinctive low quality sound would be preferable, if it sounds like a digital it's not so fun anymore.
There's a DSP for that. Or ten.