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Audio tapes were crap for most people. There was good tape certainly -- reel to reel, metal tapes, etc. But most people used the cheap normal tape, and probabl
by dale_glass 3y ago
Audio tapes were crap for most people.
There was good tape certainly -- reel to reel, metal tapes, etc. But most people used the cheap normal tape, and probably C120 which had a tendency to get tangled in the mechanism.
Modern dirt cheap 44.1 KHz/16 bit audio is far superior to anything you could get in the tape era, except maybe a reel to reel tape set to the high quality speed.
And even the best tape still had some wow and flutter because it's ultimately a mechanical device with imperfect speed control.
- jacquesm 3y agoWe did - briefly - have the DAT (digital audio tape) format.
- flyinghamster 3y agoThat got kneecapped by the recording industry [0], and the result was that consumer interest was near zero. Once recordable CDs and then MP3 and friends came on the scene, it was rendered irrelevant. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System