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Man, Im struggling to remember what the last cassette I even bought was. But its cool to see a company keeping the medium alive.
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On a serious note, 5.25" floppy disks are fetching a pretty penny now I think large due to collectors. I can see that also happening to casette tape if they ever cease to make them.
Wait... I can understand Vinyl, because that has to do with actual audio quality. How can you get that kind of quality on a cassette? I'm honestly shocked that they are still producing - let alone producing more than ever.
Absolutely ridiculous.
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I think this is even cooler....
I need my 5.25" floppy, man!
Wait... I can understand Vinyl, because that has to do with actual audio quality. How can you get that kind of quality on a cassette? I'm honestly shocked that they are still producing - let alone producing more than ever.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Check out the Nakamichi Dragon.Wait... I can understand Vinyl, because that has to do with actual audio quality. How can you get that kind of quality on a cassette? I'm honestly shocked that they are still producing - let alone producing more than ever.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Cool story but I don't miss pressure pads falling off, tape jams and the terrible dynamic range. They were great for making mix tapes for family and friends.
Well, I still have my RATT Invasion Of Your Privacy tape, which I bought in May of 1988. 27 years old, and I also have two other that are probably 24 years old.
Nowadays, I put my music on a USB flash drive. Meh! Don't miss tapes.
Audiophiles claim cassette is better because it's analog. But isn't the master audio file which is recorded to the tape a digital source?
...and these days I buy most albums as digital downloads from Amazon, opting for CDs only when either the digital download option doesn't exist...
Still waiting for someone to post nostalgia article of 240i VHS tape over 1080p BluRay video.
Cassettes. I dont remember the last one I bought but I remember the first CD I ever bought. Queensryche's Empire. That was 1990 so my last cassette had to be something before that.
Empire was the last really good Queensryche album in my opinion. After that, I heard its song on the Last Action Hero soundtrack called "The Real World" and was so disappointed that I didn't bother keeping up with Queensryche after that, with the exception of Operation Mindcrime II. That one also didn't hold a candle to the original Operation Mindcrime from 1988.
I think my last cassette purchase was Collective Soul's Disciplined Breakdown album.
And cassettes sucked for extended sex-in-the-car sessions.
Promised Land was really good. I liked it almost as much as Empire. Hear in the Now Frontier was where it all went horribly wrong. The whole CD sounded flat as hell, like they were singing outside in a field or something. Mindcrime II was the only CD Ive bought from them since. I dont get how they could go from being the best band ever IMO to the horrible stuff theyre putting out now. Metallica I get, they sold out for the money but Queensryche was never that big so I dont know what the hell they were thinking. Doesnt matter now that Tate has left and they all hate each other. Theyll never get back together and fix it.
My favorite Queensryche material is the self-titled EP and The Warning, though Rage Against Order, Operation Mindcrime, and Empire are extraordinary, too. While the band may never reunite and reproduce the glory days, at least there is other material from the 80s that is very similar to that 80s Seattle heavy metal sound, including Fates Warning, Hittman, and Crimson Glory.