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In Reply to: RE: SONY Pro Walkman cassette player posted by geoffkait on September 20, 2020 at 07:24:14
I owned many "Walkmans" when I was younger and none of them came close to the detail, lack of artifacts, and lack of wear of CDs.
The early CD players, particularly the portable ones definitely had issues with harshness, skip protection, and overall reliability. Portable digital has come a LONG ways since then. Modern units have no moving parts and much better DACs then those early CD players.
I would bet my last dollar that in a blind test between the most high tech portable tape player on the planet and even something simple like the Xduoo x2 playing lossless files almost no one would would prefer the portable tape player.
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Ah, the old blind test rears its ugly head. How convenient of you to guess the outcome without even doing the test. Smooth.
I lived with cassettes for the first 15 years of my life. They were not not the key to analog sonic bliss. They got stretched, magnetized, demagnetized, full of drop outs, worn out and dull sounding, and that all happens in 10-15 playbacks. Having to keep the heads clean for optimal sound quality and the pinch roller clean so it won't eat your tapes. Always loved playing through a garbled section of previously eaten tape. Warm smooth analog sound there.
Cassettes produce the equivalent of 8 bit sound even on a well recorded and never before played cassette. It only goes downhill from there. Measurable things like wow, flutter, and signal to noise ratio are abysmal.
Sorry to hear you had such bad luck. Better luck next time!
Had nothing to do with luck. It was just the limitations of the technology.
There won't be a next time now that I have access to digital playback that is technology superior in every way and even offers what some people refer to as "analog warmth".
Analog warmth? Shirley you jest. You must not have got the memo, as a general rule digital sounds thin, threadbare, rolled off, boomy, two dimensional, congealed, bland, synthetic, and like papier-mâché.
Edits: 12/23/20
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