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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.
People still have CD players?
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Well now I have Cybernazi in my Youtube history, guess I should read the article before clicking the Youtube link and then blithely clicking "okay" on the notice informing me that the video content has been flagged. Though I'm mostly just annoyed that they have replaced an "a" with a delta instead of an alpha.
You can't see the imagery when just listening to the music. There's no message in the music, just the YT video. If you like the music, so what? No need to be ashamed. A lot of the fashwave stuff sounds great, and no one is going to know why it's considered "bad" by listening.
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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.…
All I want is speed control on a cassette player. It'd be great for sampling for lo-fi music.
There's also the fascinating OM-1 Cassette Tape synthesizer [2] -- it varies the pitch of the tape to produce different sounds.
[1] https://amulets.bandcamp.com/merch/modified-variable-speed-t...
[2] https://ask.audio/articles/om-1-cassette-tape-synthesizer-is...
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Why not just get an actual 70s/80s vintage tape deck instead?
Because they're i) mechanical and often need to be repaired and ii) shit. Seriously, tape is fucking awful for all use cases except "no other formats exist at this point in time", and that was true in 1982, but not today.
> 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...
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.…
If you do need a decoder, why not just use the tape as a digital backup tape, and write a high-bitrate FLAC file to it? A decoder is a decoder.
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You can't see the imagery when just listening to the music. There's no message in the music, just the YT video. If you like the music, so what? No need to be ashamed. A lot of the fashwave stuff sounds great, and no one is going to know why it's considered "bad" by listening.
Yeah but by sharing the music with others youre helping spread propoganda. Even juust watching the video probably helps it spread on YouTube with the recommendation algorithm. Gotta be careful.
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Why not just get an actual 70s/80s vintage tape deck instead?
Because they're i) mechanical and often need to be repaired and ii) shit. Seriously, tape is fucking awful for all use cases except "no other formats exist at this point in time", and that was true in 1982, but not today.
Granted, that's mostly because I have one of those tape-to-3.5mm adapters, but even the actual tapes I pop in every once in awhile are more convenient than CDs, not to mention more space-efficient.
Vaporwave makes great working music. Anything by ecovirtual on Bandcamp comes to mind
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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.
People still have CD players?
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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.
Vinyl's alive and growing every day. Lots of artists release on vinyl at the demand of their fans and there are plenty of thriving record stores with recent releases.
I do have a turntable myself, a very interesting early/mid 70s direct drive table made by CEC in Japan and sold as a Visonik in Germany. But I primarily collect old albums that were released on vinyl as their primary format, I don't care much for new releases on vinyl.
I still maintain that the vinyl boom is a dad.