I also still use cassettes. I probably have +/- 300 or so. My first deck was an Aiwa FD-660, purchased in 1983, on which I made many recordings. I also have a Nakamichi DR-10, purchased in the late 1990's. My prize recordings include a couple of years worth of the *Milestones* program - a weekly Saturday evening 3 hour program of jazz hosted by Miles Willis on KPFT FM for many years. After all the intervening years, those cassettes still sound amazingly good.
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
If you get a chance watch this: Cassette: A Documentary Mix-tape
Brought back a lot of memories. I grew up in the cassette era and made hundreds of mix-tapes and recorded lots of full albums. I still have several quality cassette decks and lots of blank and recorded tapes. Don't listen as much to them anymore, but from time to time will load one into a machine.
It was never about the quality for me, it was about the hands on, custom nature of what I wanted to make. It was uniquely mine.
It is streaming on Amazon Prime for free and is also on cable TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EbJ4ZX4RIw
Brought back a lot of memories. I grew up in the cassette era and made hundreds of mix-tapes and recorded lots of full albums. I still have several quality cassette decks and lots of blank and recorded tapes. Don't listen as much to them anymore, but from time to time will load one into a machine.
It was never about the quality for me, it was about the hands on, custom nature of what I wanted to make. It was uniquely mine.
It is streaming on Amazon Prime for free and is also on cable TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EbJ4ZX4RIw