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

[David Lennick]

I haven't had a cassette player in the car since who knows when..there are 
still a couple of working players (and a good boom box) around the house for 
when something needs to be transferred. But I also have sets of OTR from Radio 
Spittoons and a few books-on-tape that have had as much attention as my laserdiscs.

dl

On 10/20/2011 12:36 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>> ________________________________
>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] The audio casette is making a comback
>>
>> 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
>>>>> _____________________________
>>