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The one format with zero redeeming qualities. God no....
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Yeah, my Sony VinylMan was so much more convenient for my paper route when I was 13.I disabled signatures.
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Wait, were they gone?
There are still boxes full of 'em in the basement... and some of them gizmos to play them upon strewn about amidst the rubble.
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The one format with zero redeeming qualities. God no....
I dunno -- eight tracks make cassettes look pretty good.
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I think I just threw up a littleWhen I was a kid my parents told me to turn it down. Now I'm an adult and my kids tell me to turn it down.
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My guess is that they have seen the "hip" factor of going back to vinyl. Thus hoping for a possible resurrection of another analog medium.....tape. The cool factor will be epic.
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My guess is that they have seen the "hip" factor of going back to vinyl. Thus hoping for a possible resurrection of another analog medium.....tape. The cool factor will be epic.
Just wait...there's still a chance that by this time next year, we will have a portable device for phonograph cylinders. It'll be the size of a shoebox but damn will you look hip!
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I've got some Slayer and Death Church cylinders for that old Edison!!!!!If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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I just cannot see this taking hold... though fully agreed, 8-track, worst medium ever.VA HT HK AVR20II, Sony S9000ES CD/DVD/SACD, Polk Audio RC80i / Polk Audio CSi3, 60" Panasonic Plasma, Nordost / Signal Cable A2 / Wireworld / Pangea / Magic Power
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I have seen the future:
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All you old vinyl lovers are to blame for these people trying to bring cassettes back. Life is meant to be lived moving forward not backwards!
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Unless your name is Bob.
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rednedtugent wrote: »Unless your name is Bob.
Put the letters backwards and it still spells boB.
Or if your name is "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog", for that matter.
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All you old vinyl lovers are to blame for these people trying to bring cassettes back. Life is meant to be lived moving forward not backwards!
Not to mention some how they have to find a way to empty the warehouses of old cassettes. -
All you old vinyl lovers are to blame for these people trying to bring cassettes back. Life is meant to be lived moving forward not backwards!
lol. I disagree. I think that the Guardians of the Galaxy film, specifically the "Star-Lord" character, is responsible for the whole cassette resurgence thing.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »rednedtugent wrote: »Unless your name is Bob.
Put the letters backwards and it still spells boB.
Or if your name is "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog", for that matter.
Some on this forum might find it intriguing that you know such a palindrome. Not me. Just the norm here. Nothing to look at.
I was always fond of "A man, a plan, a canal. Panama!"
So, are you willing to put forth a little effort or are you happy sitting in your skeptical poo pile?
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I still haven't figured out why he woulda been speaking English
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The cool thing about cassettes back then was you could make your own copulation tapes and record your LP's to save them the wear and tear of dragging a sharp point through the grooves. Not to mention, you could play them in your car. With a good deck and quality tape they weren't too bad. I think I still have some sealed blank cassettes from Sony. The cases were ceramic, heavy as heck.Political Correctness'.........defined
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A lot of my favorite record labels have been releasing cassette tapes for a while now, so obviously somebody is buying them.
I used a cassette Walkman for quite a while back in my middle school (maybe early high school) era until portable CD players with a decent enough antiskip came along that was very affordable. The 1 to 5 second antiskip wasn't good enough for walking around with.afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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I used to make cassettes from my LP's for my sailboat. I never thought about them being copulation tapes, but I believe they served that purpose after some of the good times popped into my mind. It was great to be "young"."Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
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They also played into trying before buying. Like mp3's did for me. Have a friend record an album on cassette so you could lusten to it. If i found myself listening to it weeks later it was off to buy the album.
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The cool thing about cassettes back then was you could make your own copulation tapes...
Spellcheck run amok, Freudian slip, or simply that wry ol' F1humor?
Only the Man himself knows for sure.
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I used to enjoy making mix tapes for my ex and sister in law. I had a decent Nakamichi Deck, Technics TT, Shure V15 Type V MR Cartridge, and always used good chrome or metal tape. Had a decent head unit in the car too. Good timesHome Theater/2 Channel:
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This is the reason I still buy decent used cassette deck's to this day. They will come back and I will sell them. I lived thru all the consumer formats from 33 to .FLAC and I still like cassettes. I have cassette tapes that were recorded in the 70's that still play. I have the first CD I ever bought as well. The CD skips and you can see right thru it in many places so basically unusable. The cassettes still sound basically the same. I remember when I heard that prerecorded CD's would last forever, a lifetime ! A bold statement. Mine most certainly did not. I think if folks are honest (that were there when the came out that is) they nearly all say that it would be a great idea to have the option to buy music recorded on cassette.
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Disc rot is real.afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »
I'll never tell.Political Correctness'.........defined
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