It seems that cassettes are making a small comeback. There have been some new portable cassette players that have been released. In addition people like You Tuber Mary Spender just released some of her own music on cassette which is just one example of younger people being interested in cassettes.
I used to have a Nakamichi CR3A cassette player in my stereo. Cassettes were inferior to CD's and records. Dolby B removed the high's, though Dolby C was better. The other thing was every time you play the cassette, the quality of the music degrades by a tiny bit.
What made cassettes so appealing was it was a good format if you wanted to copy your favorite records or if your borrow friends records and you wanted a copy of it to play in your cassette player including Sony Walkman, or car stereo In addition, we used to record music off the radio like King Biscuit Flower Hour where they had some cool live recording of the Rollings Stones or some other band. Back in the day, I took my Sanyo cassette player (their version of the Sony Walkman) to Madison Square Garden and recorded The ARMS concert with Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. This is why they were so popular in their day. To get better quality recordings I used to buy metal tapes and then record my records or a friend's records onto cassettes. Then to play it on a portable device including boom boxes. However, when you compare the quality of the music with CD's or good streaming services, the music clearly sounds better on them vs cassettes.
Now records with a good phonograph player, stylus, and phono preamp sound better than cassettes. Not to mention the album was fun to look at along with the information on the back or inner sleeve while listening to the music. I can see the appeal for records as many records I actually found better than CD's or streaming services though this is subjective.
What do you see about cassettes that are attracting people today?
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