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.
Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?
kadup@lemmy.world 1 week agoDon’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.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.