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Really? Every music aficionado I know collects cassette tapes.

• TheOtherHobbes 10y ago
  From this corner of the world, tape looks like a local-ish hipster fad that's of interest in some micro-scenes. But there's a general nostalgia thing happening all over, and tape and vinyl seem to be part of that. When I switched from tape to vinyl in the 70s I noticed I enjoyed some of my collection less, even though I was hearing a lot more detail. I've often wondered if there's a psychoacoustic effect which forces your brain to work harder to parse sound on cassette. It's such a lofi medium I suspect your brain fills in the missing detail with what you'd like to hear. So it's more involving than (say) FLACl, which gives you all the detail you want - and then some.