Cassettes still rock!

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As to CDs having a litany of faults by geofkait, I don’t know what the heck he is hearing except that my mastering engineer friends and audiophile friends (pardoning my analog LP only friends) get magnificent sound out of correctly mastered CDs.

>>>>Everything is relative. If only you could hear what I’ve heard with your ears. And that goes double for your mastering engineer friends and audiophile friends!! 👯

One assumes by “correctly mastered CDs” you’re referring to the ones that aren’t in reverse polarity and aren’t overly compressed, which leaves what, about 15% of them? 😬

Next up, how to color cassettes. Please, no angry emails. 😡

Eggs ackley! CD quality can be generally defined as thin, honky, bass-shy, compressed, generic, irritating, two dimensional, boomy, congealed, and like papier-mâché.

Ack chew ally cassettes generally have a better dynamic range than many CDs if you want to get technical, you know, what with the overly aggressive dynamic range compression that began for CDs right around the end of the cassette era. Besides, tape is a natural medium, it breathes.

Thanks for looking 👀 

Any and all. 

Do me a solid and pick up all Beastie Boys cassettes you might find.

Fiddler crab 🦀 

I applaud your fiddle prowess. 👏

It makes a lot of sense that someone from U.K. would actually enjoy the fiddly exercise of putting the original felt squat back on. 🤗 

There is some enterprising person on eBay who sells a pack of those little felt square spacers that sometimes fall off after 30 years or so and must replaced. The little felt squares are adhesive backed which is a relief. 🤗

Coincidence? I found Pink Floyd The Wall, Green Day Dookie and French version of Catch Bull at Four on cassette ten minutes ago. Sweet!

I like the standard Sony Walkman cassette players, I have a bunch. They just plain sound good. Heifetz sounds like Heifetz. No power cords to worry about, or interconnects or fuses or room treatments. No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks. I also am quite fond of the vintage Sony Ultralight earphones. How come the Japanese have such good ears?

I would disagree if I could. It also helps to have inserted a Perfect Path Card inside the cassette player case and to color the cassettes. Yes, I know what you’re thinking, “coloring cassettes, are you out of mind?” 🤪

I guess by that definition my humble Sony Professional portable cassette player is a great machine. Hooray! 🤗

Oh, geez, they’re coming out of the woodwork on this one. 

Tape is a natural medium. It breathes. Listen to Heifetz on CD. Listen to Heifetz on cassette. The end.  🔚