Another nice article on some of our (here at Phoenix Audio Tape Company) favorite medium!!
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Cassette's are making a comeback
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Or simply just play any music on some slabs and you will here it.
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LOL! Some things never change... (Re. Stuwee cracking me up!)
A link to this same article was posted in my favorite boombox collectors forum, here is what I wrote there... Seems pretty much appropriate for this crowd, too...
There is lots of cool info in that article and some things I agree with (like the ADD comments, LOL) but there are also a side to cassettes that I think are missing from this article.
Recording your own tapes is definitely the best way to go.
Personally, I do not like tapes "for the hiss..." It's painfully obvious that author ever heard a good tape on a good system in his life. And as I've read many of these "Tape Comeback" articles, the authors never really describe what a tape recording is really capable of when it comes to sound quality. They tend to focus on that 3 seconds between songs that they can hear tape hiss (or during quiet passages) listening to a prerecorded tape on a mediocre, at best, tape player, hooked up to whatever crappy system they probably have. Or how the tape got tangled in their player.... blah blah.... and read the comments people leave... OMG...
I'd love to pull one of these guys into my DJ booth area and subject them to a TDK MA-R recorded on my Nak RX-505 and make their eyes bulge with surprise....
But, to be fair, that is not why tapes are making a comeback. It's to be "cool." I'm not buying the "cheaper than CD" argument... Considering the price of blank CD-R's I don't get the comment that a tape is cheaper to manufacture and distribute than a CD? Will someone please explain that to me?
And the Technics RS-616 deck referred to at the beginning of the article is nothing special, yet they made it sound like it was the end-all of cassette decks.
Still, it's good to see tapes getting press...
A link to this same article was posted in my favorite boombox collectors forum, here is what I wrote there... Seems pretty much appropriate for this crowd, too...
There is lots of cool info in that article and some things I agree with (like the ADD comments, LOL) but there are also a side to cassettes that I think are missing from this article.
Recording your own tapes is definitely the best way to go.
Personally, I do not like tapes "for the hiss..." It's painfully obvious that author ever heard a good tape on a good system in his life. And as I've read many of these "Tape Comeback" articles, the authors never really describe what a tape recording is really capable of when it comes to sound quality. They tend to focus on that 3 seconds between songs that they can hear tape hiss (or during quiet passages) listening to a prerecorded tape on a mediocre, at best, tape player, hooked up to whatever crappy system they probably have. Or how the tape got tangled in their player.... blah blah.... and read the comments people leave... OMG...
I'd love to pull one of these guys into my DJ booth area and subject them to a TDK MA-R recorded on my Nak RX-505 and make their eyes bulge with surprise....
But, to be fair, that is not why tapes are making a comeback. It's to be "cool." I'm not buying the "cheaper than CD" argument... Considering the price of blank CD-R's I don't get the comment that a tape is cheaper to manufacture and distribute than a CD? Will someone please explain that to me?
And the Technics RS-616 deck referred to at the beginning of the article is nothing special, yet they made it sound like it was the end-all of cassette decks.
Still, it's good to see tapes getting press...
, and when you put a MA-XG in their hand and the jaw drops again 
