So I am firmly on the vinyl wagon. Love the sound, love the format, love everything about it.
But I was thinking recently that it definitely comes with some practical hassles. Obviously around storage, care, and then the eternal tweaks to equipment to get the most out of it.
I would imagine, at the time, that the good old cassette was born to counter this (anyone remember buying stacks of TDK?). I remember my dad having a Technics turntable and (at the time) very good cassette deck.
And it was also an analog format... So I guess my question is, how much worse/different was a good cassette from a vinyl recording? And given a good quality tape on a reasonable tape deck, could it also be better than a CD, on the basis of being a full-frequency analog recording?
And is it at all possible that it could again become a "convenient" (relative to vinyl) analog format?
Was just wondering... :whistler:
But I was thinking recently that it definitely comes with some practical hassles. Obviously around storage, care, and then the eternal tweaks to equipment to get the most out of it.
I would imagine, at the time, that the good old cassette was born to counter this (anyone remember buying stacks of TDK?). I remember my dad having a Technics turntable and (at the time) very good cassette deck.
And it was also an analog format... So I guess my question is, how much worse/different was a good cassette from a vinyl recording? And given a good quality tape on a reasonable tape deck, could it also be better than a CD, on the basis of being a full-frequency analog recording?
And is it at all possible that it could again become a "convenient" (relative to vinyl) analog format?
Was just wondering... :whistler:
