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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.
If you dont care about quality, why would you spend $500
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The tape deck manufacturers today know what's up. Nobody is trying to get serious hi-fi out of tapes anymore. There are cheaper and more effective ways of doing that today. People using tapes are looking specifically for the imperfections of the medium. Trying to get perfect reproduction out of one would be like selling a synthesizer that only produces the most perfect, clean sine wave. Nobody wants that. The distort…
No of course not, it would be a waste of money to force cassette tapes into having decent sound quality. Anyone who cares about that is going to be using either lossless files or a good modern lossy codec. What people want is the shitty version of cassette tape, the one they grew up listening to on their birthday present portable tape players. Probably tapes recorded on a middling-quality player from an LP. And I get…
The biggest market for cassettes today is for people who never experienced them before.
My mind just can't accept that this isn't a parody / publicity stunt.
It's an aesthetic, or as they call it, an a e s t h e t i c. There's nostalgia in that style, when internet was 90s and simpler. When malls were flourishing and it looked like we were heading towards a comfortable consumerist end of history rather than a hyper-optimized automated dystopia. The Windows 95 phone could be considered vaporwave: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17405219
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People who will spend $500 on a mediocre tape deck?
It looks fancy enough and you can show your friends how retro you are. Sure a CD player would be better in every way, but everyone has those. Sound is really secondary here.
My hobbies and the things I spend my discretionary money on are superior to other people’s hobbies and the things they spend their discretionary money on.
Making something that can fit on a floppy disc is pretty cool restriction to give yourself imo. Do you just cripple the bitrate to squeeze a 3+ minute song on, do you stick to super short songs or do you find alternate means of maximising the space (I'm thinking potentially a mixture of midi files with some guidelines, and super low encoded vocals) Floppy discs are much more aesthetically pleasing than cassettes (alt…
I was disappointed that the floppies didn't contain mods (tracker music).
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People who will spend $500 on a mediocre tape deck?
It looks fancy enough and you can show your friends how retro you are. Sure a CD player would be better in every way, but everyone has those. Sound is really secondary here.
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It's art and nice to display. People do the same with vinyl records, comics, etc., definitely looks cool to have for collectors and lovers of old tech.
Yes. I actually kept some of the cassettes I was given, and they do look nice on a shelf. Plus it's a way to support the band. I once considered releasing a tape with no music on it. Just nice cover art. I wonder if anyone would know?
Is selling vaporwave songs legal, such as those that remix Michael Jackson? If not, who is liable - is it the creator of the song or the seller of floppy disks?