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Good riddance? Good fucking riddance, more like. Tapes are shit. Hiss, flutter, wow, head misalignment, Dolby NR. "Ah, which Dolby NR?" - well, exactly. And we
by to3m 10y ago
Good riddance? Good fucking riddance, more like.
Tapes are shit. Hiss, flutter, wow, head misalignment, Dolby NR. "Ah, which Dolby NR?" - well, exactly. And we haven't even got onto Type I vs Type II vs Type IV, and your C120s that snap if you so much as look at them, and the tapes that get tangled and snagged and melted in your car stereo, because they're right next to some air ducts that blow fan-assisted hot air from a big lump of hot metal barely half a metre away.
Also, tapes are a useless size. CDs hold like 70 minutes. So you have a C60, and it's not enough, or a C90, and it's too much - even assuming you don't have any bin-packing problems.
Honest to god. Tapes. TAPES.
If you like the sound (what is wrong with people??), then for God's sake, at least record from your stupid tape deck to the PC, then FLAC it, because then at least you'll avoid that fast forward and rewind nonsense. Battery life on MP3 players is a lot better too.
I don't know what to say.
EDIT: classic quantity/quality tradeoff: exchanged intemperate language for the FLAC suggestion
EDIT 2: I think this is the first time in a long time I've seen the word "weird" used in a link and it's actually appropriate
- nizmow 10y agoAfter reading the article I came here to have exactly this rant. Thanks for doing it for me. Also, I'm not sure where they were trying to go with the "tapes are cheaper and more convenient than vinyl! This is great for small indie bands!". Is this 1970?
- maxxxxx 10y agoThey should revive the old reel to reel machines like this: http://www.reeltoreel.de/worldwide/A700.htm http://www.reeltoreel.de/worldwide/A700.htm. That's bad ass.
- sandworm101 10y agoThe one tiny upside: total lack of DRM. It isn't much, but it is something worth saying.
- djrogers 10y ago> total lack of DRM Well yeah - there's no D so you can't have DRM. Tapes have a built in mechanism to prevent rampant copying though - they degrade with each generation.
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