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My brother and I bought the same album back in 1994. Stone Temple Pilots—Purple. I had it on CD, he bought the tape. The CD sounded (obviously) so much better
by function_seven 1y ago
My brother and I bought the same album back in 1994. Stone Temple Pilots—Purple.
I had it on CD, he bought the tape.
The CD sounded (obviously) so much better than his tape. But a little while later I made my own tape copy of the CD, and my copy sounded really close to the CD! Way better than his store-bought copy.
Those bastards didn't even have the decency to use Type II cassettes for the released album.
A Type II (or even better, Type IV-Metal) tape could sound pretty damn good. Still sucked to have to rewind or fast-forward, though.
(Also, Dolby NR was terrible. I'd rather have the hiss than have the muted highs)
- dylan604 1y agoDon't forget about quality loss from manufactured cassettes being high speed dubs. There's significant quality loss as you increase the dub speed.
- SoftTalker 1y agoYeah mass-produced tapes were pretty bad but if you copied an album to cassette using a good tape and decent tape deck they could sound pretty good. Good enough for a Walkman or playing in the car anyway.
- 8bitsrule 1y agoPioneer, metal tape (TDK) and Dolby, man.
- dylan604 1y agoMaxell man!!! j/k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk71h2CQ_xM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk71h2CQ_xM even the tape hiss in the ad about a cassette tape is golden
- SoftTalker 1y agoOne of the all-time great iconic ads. The photo of the guy in the chair was available as a poster and graced many a young man's bedroom or dorm room wall.
- cf100clunk 1y agoI still have cassette tapes encoded with dbx rather than Dolby and the former's sound quality is much better than the latter. I'd recorded them on Technics decks, which is why I still keep an old deck of that brand for playback and ripping as the bias values are identical.