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From: dave weil
Date: 5/3/2004 8:32 AM Pacific Standard Time
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On 03 May 2004 15:12:03 GMT, (S888Wheel) wrote:

I suspect that that reasonably good digital now is so pervasive, people
have
forgotten how bad, even really pretty good cassette recordings are by
modern
standards.

I suspect most people have dropped the format and have to some degree
forgoten
much about it's sound. I also suspect that only a few ever really used
cassettes for critical listening. Most people I know were not terribly
concerned about sound quality and had them because they were portable.

I *just* picked up a used Tascam 122 and I still like to make
cassettes (I find it more fun than sitting in front of my computer
making CDs) and I *still* like to listen to cassettes on occasion. I
find that for a lot of "rock and roll", the euphony is more consonant
than CD. es[ecially in the car (see below).

Portability is still an issue for me because I still only have
cassette in the car. I've found that when I listen to other peoples'
CDs in the car, they don't *quite* sound as good to me, although the
track selection is preferable. I think it's an issue of them sounding
too "brittle" in that environment. But this is just my taste.
Eventually, I'll probably get around to sticking a CD changer in the
car...it's just that I'm not driven (pardon the pun) to do so right
now...

Well, I could be wrong but I suspect this is a case of you not being like most
people. Maybe more people are still using cassettes than I suspect.