Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The problem is, every modern cassette deck on the market except for one by TEAC and TASCAM is fucking crap. You’re pretty much stuck using vintage gear which hasn’t held up too well. I had a Pioneer deck that sounded fantastic but broke. Like unfixable because they don’t make the parts anymore. I have a TEAC deck from the '90s that sounds like crap now. I’m just done with it. You have plenty of good choices when buying a new turntable. Where as with cassettes you have two descent ones, and the rest are AIDS.
kadup@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Don’t listen to “audiophiles” otherwise literally no audio equipment is ever good, and it becomes a who can spend the most money contest.
A cassette player from FiiO will sound absolutely great and work fine.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A cheap record player or a cheap CD player were always better than a high-end cassette player. Cassettes were designed to be small at the expense of quality at a time when technology didn’t allow things to be both small and high quality, and the constraints of the medium are well within the bounds of what most people can easily hear. Once CDs and their players became cheap, tape was entirely obsolete, and didn’t have the I don’t understand Nyquist Sampling Theorem or acknowledge the existence of dust excuse that vinyl had.
kadup@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Naturally. But the comment is not comparing tape to other media, we are talking about tape players.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Bro it’s $100 and built like a cheap toy. It’s way overpriced if you want to talk about who can spend the most money. Believe it or not, i’m not some rich audiophile. I have an okay DAC and okay headphones. Also, I listen to music through my phone speakers.