"Laurence Payne" wrote in
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 07:57:08 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

IMO, its a different flavor of crap. I don't think that the cassette
medium can possibly reproduce a lot of the over-bright,
hyper-compresssed crap that passes for popular music these days. Not
enough dynamic range over a wide enough range of frequencies.

Why do you need dynamic range to reproduce over-compressed material?

Because the cassette format is THAT crappy. It really does not have what we
call dynamic range in modern times. It's even worse than vinyl, and by quite
a bit!

If you run the levels on cassette low enough to have enough output at 10 KHz
to reproduce the modern hot overcompressed overclipped stuff even half-well,
the recording level will often be so low that playback will be audibly
noisy. Not to mention all the extra gain you will have to add at playback
time.

True even with cassettes made with Dolby HX on good tape.