1/1000 of a penny for MP3's? Doesn't make any sense to use obsolete technology and the only people doing that are truly clueless. The cost is maybe a tenth of a penny per song for a high quality wave files. ![]() You can fit thousands of recordings on them. Just the rewind time alone is a super pain in the ass.Ī 1Teribyte drive costs what, $30. That breaks down to around 17 cents per minute to record onto crappy fidelity tape no one is going to want to listen to, not even you. Last time I bought a 10 pack they were costing me around 15 for the cheap tape and around 25 for the high Bias II all the multitrack recorders required.Īt double speed you'd be able to record 15 minutes of music per tape which meant you could record 150 minutes on an entire box which cost you $25. The cassettes alone if you can even find them any more will clean out your bank account. This way you now the music has zero fidelity loss. If you want to store music buy external drives and load them up. You wont get mastered audio quality recording straight to cassette.ĭo yourself a big favor. Any unit you'd by for the home is going to be good for playback. the dinky little heads and thin tape used with cassettes can barely capture a completed master recording when recorded on high quality duplicator machines. When it comes to tape you want wide tracks and high speed. The felt pads that pusjha against the heads wear and the glue that hold it in place looses its bond. ![]() Even the transport inside the cassette suffer from age. Luckily, for most I used high bias tape which typically lasts longer, but the cheaper tapes I used through the 80's and 90's are in really rough shape. I have thousands of cassettes full of recordings I been converting over to digital. They top out at maybe 12Khz if you can still find the high bias tape.Ĭassette tape has a very limited life span and a limited number of playbacks before the fidelity begins to deteriorate. I've owned the 4 Tracks Tascams and Still own an 8 Track cassette. Not just talking about the Hi Fi Recorders either. Car players were horrible until maybe the mid 80 and only hung around until CD burners blew their doors off for fidelity and cost. Took at least 5 generations of cassette decks to even match what an LP could produce from a Hi Fi setup. I suspect they have never worked with it and simply don't realize just how crappy a format it actually was. Why anyone would want to record to cassette is beyond me however. Your better cassettes also had dolby too. ![]() This allowed you to adjust the recording levels to get the best fidelity by hearing the playback as its recording. The better cassette deck systems had three heads and you could monitor the sound coming off the playback head like you can with a reel to reel.
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