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What Is It With All These Cassette Fanatics??? Open Reel Forum Please!!

Posted by proaudio5@hotmail.com (P) on January 16, 2006 at 17:01:49

Please! Let it go... it's over. Cassette is, and always was an inferior recording format. Its claim to fame, at one time, was its portability.

Granted, it's still portable. But given its propensity for mechanical flaws, tape wear, and lack of available replacement parts for even top-notch portable machines of the day, let alone your car stereo deck, why on earth would anyone continue to use the format for everyday playback?

I still own and use several (both professional and consumer) cassette decks which all operate flawlessly. But seriously, other than transferring old, sentimental, or rare recordings to more permanent media, why on earth would anyone want to use these machines for in the home reproduction?

I'm so sick of hearing about Nakamichi tape decks. Shut up already. Unless you've got more money than God, there's no way to make them perform to factory spec. They didn't even do that two years after purchase.

Even if you found a Nak Dragon in a hermetically sealed, temperature controlled container sealed at the factory from 1980, you'd never get the tapes recorded on it to play correctly on your walkman, car stereo, or any tape deck other than another (factory perfect) "high-end" Nak for that matter.

Are we ever going to get an OPEN REEL forum??

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