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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?

 

hilde45

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avanti1960
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my friend had a pioneer home deck, it really sounded decent.  continuous play was nice. 

still the format was totally flawed. 3 spontaneous interruptions per title when the head moved to the next track.  bulky footprint and low density per minute of music.

i remember hearing david bowie for the first time...

"suffragette citay, who hi, my suffragette citay,......... awwwww wam.................click..............click................bam thank you mam"

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