[78-L] The audio casette is making a comback

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

A good high end cassette deck (like a Nakamichi Dragon for example) with type 1 (ferric) low noise tape adding Dolby B or C if you wish can sound pretty good. Chrome tapes can sound even better. But since the cassette stereo I had in my truck died I replaced it with a CD deck & haven't recorded on cassettes ever since nor do I collect prerecorded cassettes. Other than playing back cassettes of classical LP's I borrowed from the library to me the format is dead & can stay dead. Prerecorded cassettes? Forget it. I'm not interested in those.
 
Open reel is a different story as I like to record classical music from FM on 2 track stereo at 7.5 ips with older Ampex & Scotch tapes like the Ampex 600 series of tapes plus the Scotch 100 & some of the 200 series. I also collect early 50's 2 track stereo (inline) prerecorded tapes played on my 2 track deck as well as the quarter track tapes sold later in the stores played on a quarter track Pioneer thats used for playback only. Sure open reel is a dead format but I still like it.


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>From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:09 AM
>Subject: Re: [78-L] The audio casette is making a comback
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>Ah, nostalgia..fishing the tape out of the shell when it slipped behind the 
>pressure pad..hearing it slow down or crumple..having to rescue it when it 
>packed up in your car player..no, man, there is NOTHING to justify this. Oh, I 
>forgot, trying to rescue listenable audio from something sent to you by a 
>friend who used a $30 recorder with automatic level control and K-Mart's 3/$1 
>cassettes. Granted, when there was no other alternative, chrome cassettes were 
>pretty good.
>
>dl
>
>On 10/20/2011 12:02 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>>
>> No true "audiofile" wants to see cassettes come back. What's next? The 8-track?
>>
>> "Ooooo! That lovely sound of "ker-chunk" when the tracks changed over makes me think of my first date with Mari Loo."
>>
>> Cary Ginell
>>
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:07:29 -0400
>>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] The audio casette is making a comback
>>>
>>> Oy.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 10/20/2011 9:01 AM, Steve Ramm wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Interesting article in TODAY's Wall St Journal on the revival of the audio cassette:
>>>>
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/3gbj3rx
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Steve Ramm
>>>> _____________________________
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