Welcome to Hell, here's your 8-Track


Neil Postman once said, 

"Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided."

I'm pretty sure that we know that the 8-track was more bad than good.

Question for audiophiles here who might know -- was there anything good about 8-track technology that was lost when it went extinct? And what was that good, audio-wise, specifically?

 

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Showing 1 response by arcticdeth

Loved my 8 track, pop it in and it would not stop til pulled out 😁

 

had a few fave, Styx, paradise theatre, grand illusion, II,

Eagles, the long run

billy Joel, 42nd st. 
 

ac/dc, high voltage, highway to hell

kiss, destroyer

judas priest, sin after sin, 

humble pie- eat it

 

pop one in, and play all night, til sick, then put in another.

sound was fine through my old Jensen speakers, I think the amp was a sears (Mca) or something receiver, worked just fine.

 

only gripe was the splitting of the song in 2 parts from 1,2,3, or 4 programs. 
 

 Upgraded to a bitchin Wollensack recordable 8 track player, champagne gold color, meters, every bell & whistle, amazing unit, been Saran wrapped after cleaning for past 38 years. 
still have box of 8 tracks, cassettes, , and a couple reel to reel albums, 1 Hendrix, and one Joplin. 
 

I liked them. 
do I want them back, no. Cassettes were a godsend, as well as my LP records. 
 

I see some 8tracks on eBay sometimes for 30-50$, I laugh and move on.