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I recently bought an old Denon 3-head cassette player for my HiFi, as I still have cassettes but have had nothing to play them on for several years. The machine
by bartread 6y ago
I recently bought an old Denon 3-head cassette player for my HiFi, as I still have cassettes but have had nothing to play them on for several years. The machine would have cost about £600 in 1983 (~£2k in 2020) when it was first introduced to the market, but cost me about £160 on eBay.
When it's operating the whole machine just screams precision, with its clicks and whirs and still bright VFD info screen and vu-meters. It's truly a beautiful thing, and very satisfying to use.
In electronic music I've also noticed a trend back away from DAWs, and everything being virtual or emulated, to real physical devices. I think there's really something in many of us that loves a properly tactile interface with dedicated controls.
- agumonkey 6y agoAlso analog devices, I mean even light bulbs, have a very particular flavour of colours. The blue, the yellow.. they're somehow more .. i don't know .. interesting than the most precise IPS or OLED panel.
- ddingus 6y agoThis is also why people still enjoy CRT displays and paintings, other real colors. Wider color spaces are more interesting.
- ddingus 6y agoOh yeah! I love listening to music on cassette and vinyl. Using good gear is all part of the experience. Edit: And tactile has mental connotations. "A little bit" on a physical dial is a target one can feel and compare in ways that are immediate, thought is action ways.