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DBX was really cool, there were also DBX-encoded LPs available for a while. Unfortunately it also made the recordings sound absolutely horrible if your player d

DBX was really cool, there were also DBX-encoded LPs available for a while. Unfortunately it also made the recordings sound absolutely horrible if your player didn't support DBX (as you noticed), so it was a massive failure. The days of physical media for music are generally over, but I just feel cassette tapes could have been so much better than they ended up being.

acomjean 8y ago
DBX records.. interesting. Its hard because once a format is entrenched, unless its backward compatible with the previous media... The market did try to make a better cassette in the late 1980s/early 1990s.. The "Digital Compact Cassette". they competed with Sony's "DAT" (Digital Audio Tape). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape You are right though, at this point digital is king. Its weird thinking back to a time when music was physical, took up space and you had to think about what to play next (and have it with you). You were sort of stuck with the music you brought with.
- haywirez 8y ago
  The main thing I miss is the tactile feedback of seeking through tracks and DJ sets with a walkman. If I held the buttons down only halfway pressed, the output would remain patched in to the headphones and I could hear the pitched up scrubbing sound. Also - when the batteries were dying, it would still play for about an hour, but progressively slower until it finally stopped. I'm bringing this back to the web for sure.
PascLeRasc 8y ago
Vinyl's alive and growing every day. Lots of artists release on vinyl at the demand of their fans and there are plenty of thriving record stores with recent releases.
- KozmoNau7 8y ago
  It's still a vanishingly tiny part of the overall music market, and most people buy them as decoration, rather than to play them. I do have a turntable myself, a very interesting early/mid 70s direct drive table made by CEC in Japan and sold as a Visonik in Germany. But I primarily collect old albums that were released on vinyl as their primary format, I don't care much for new releases on vinyl. I still maintain that the vinyl boom is a dad.
- acomjean 8y ago
  I think of all the music that is lost because it isn't digital. My friend growing up had a huge jazz record collection. He once pointed out that only a small number of them got converted to CD format.

acomjean 8y ago

DBX records.. interesting. Its hard because once a format is entrenched, unless its backward compatible with the previous media... The market did try to make a better cassette in the late 1980s/early 1990s.. The "Digital Compact Cassette". they competed with Sony's "DAT" (Digital Audio Tape). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape You are right though, at this point digital is king. Its weird thinking back to a time when music was physical, took up space and you had to think about what to play next (and have it with you). You were sort of stuck with the music you brought with.

haywirez 8y ago
The main thing I miss is the tactile feedback of seeking through tracks and DJ sets with a walkman. If I held the buttons down only halfway pressed, the output would remain patched in to the headphones and I could hear the pitched up scrubbing sound. Also - when the batteries were dying, it would still play for about an hour, but progressively slower until it finally stopped. I'm bringing this back to the web for sure.

PascLeRasc 8y ago

Vinyl's alive and growing every day. Lots of artists release on vinyl at the demand of their fans and there are plenty of thriving record stores with recent releases.

KozmoNau7 8y ago
It's still a vanishingly tiny part of the overall music market, and most people buy them as decoration, rather than to play them. I do have a turntable myself, a very interesting early/mid 70s direct drive table made by CEC in Japan and sold as a Visonik in Germany. But I primarily collect old albums that were released on vinyl as their primary format, I don't care much for new releases on vinyl. I still maintain that the vinyl boom is a dad.
acomjean 8y ago
I think of all the music that is lost because it isn't digital. My friend growing up had a huge jazz record collection. He once pointed out that only a small number of them got converted to CD format.