now watching a documentary about cassette tapes which so far has a lot of references to 'inferior sound quality' which isn't meant to be funny in this way but the streaming service i'm using has digitally compressed the audio on it so much that every needle drop is a lil joke
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in reply to @kelly's post:
might you share any tape documentary you rate? i have a cassette deck that klunks so hard i jump and spill stuff even when i know it's coming. regretting it! but for worn zx spectrum cassettes and archiving mixtapes, seems some deck features are hard to find.
wouldn't give it a rating as i haven't finished it yet (i'm having to watch it in parts because i keep getting in my ~feelings~ about stuff??) but it's called "Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape" and i'm streaming it through Peacock
i don't actually know that much about the actual units, i'm just middle aged and kinda a packrat haha
thankies, added to my "i'm not tired yet" list!
kinda same, though maybe i'm further through my revival? yeah, experiences resurface and i silent scream, but hey i'm unlearning my misunderstandings of bias or type selection .. my intro to tapes was an ozzy skater who's still using mixtapes as subversive commentary!
update: now i have more feels .. and more cassettes 🤷♀️ but most of all i found it strange how nobody on the documentary was just listening to music, everyone had a niche and a vibe. also i'm even more defensive now about cassette quality, it's only bad if something goes wrong (though admittedly there's alot to go wrong)
it's really just the hiss and slight loss of dynamic range, which is easy enough to ignore under many circumstances, but also people have memories of tapes that were copies, or copies of copies of copies, or had simply worn down from being played so much. i care about sound quality but it's diminishing returns past a certain point and it's rare that i listen to music that's so complex it needs to be perfectly reproduced. like what am i doing having a moldy peaches album in .flac if you know what i mean. tapes are Good Enough and if not for the fact that they'd sometimes just get eaten and tangled in the machinery i'd say i coulda been perfectly happy sticking with them forever. i wonder, can i get a tape drive for my computer...? i probably shouldn't look it up hahaha