Why cassette tapes are making a comeback
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
- While vinyl controlled the largest share of the physical music market last year, cassette tapes are surging in popularity. The medium saw an increase in sales from 2015 to 2023 of more than 400%. Marc Masters, author of "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape," joined CBS News to discuss the comeback.
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If someone made a mixtape for you, you were def someone important in their life.
And the feeling of making and then gifting it to that special person 😊
His or her life...fixed it for you
if people stole your mix tapes then you could look back and know that you Did know how to mix....
@@priuss6109 🫣
@@ANTHONYBOOTHthat’s funny. Had not thought of that
No younger person now days will understand how serious it was to make a mixtape either for yourself or a loved one. You had to first get a stereo that allowed copying. Then you had to get all the correct tapes from your favorite artist. Next you had to find the start of each song on the tape and manually sync up your recording with the track you wanted. All this literally took hours to accomplish and there was a possibility the tape player could get jammed up and ruin a section in your mix tape. It was all very serious.
UNIVERISITY MUSIC IN CT 1990S GOOD TIMES TAPES AND RECORDS
THEN CD CAME ALONG AND THE STORE CLOSED
Exactly why I hated cassettes back in the 80s. The invention of the CD was the greatest thing. Being able to skip to the beginning of each song in seconds was Heaven/Bliss.
The extra work made the mixtape more special and personal. If there were flaws, that also made it more personal.
@@roberteng3567 getting together with friends to copy and share music, borrowing an album so you could tape it... that was fun
Tape to tape?? yuck....
Cassettes were a dream because when I was growing up that is what you recorded on from the radio when a song came on
Nowadays the radio is not worth listening to..... I hate all the morning talk shows, commercials galore - even with the same commercial twice in the same break, news with commercials between every subject and never getting my request played. Nope. Spotify rules.
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 The music is all programmed now because the stations are no longer independently owned. They are owned by Clear Channel, Sony and BMG. So the so-called DJs are not DJs anymore. They are "on-air personalities." They exist just to talk fluff. This started in 1997. Before that time, you could still call up a radio station and request songs to be played. The best were the quiet storm segments at night where they would air the people calling up to dedicate certain songs to their lovers, ex-lovers and crushes. Those were the days before radio became the corporate oligarchy.
So long the DJ doesn't talk before the song fades,or you hear the station's jingle before the next song being played.
Haha yeah. That was the first cassette tape I ever recorded was songs off the radio. That was way back in 1980 lol. I still have that very tape and all the other tapes I did thereafter.
I have a nice collection of rare N.O.S cassette tapes too. Teac, Sony etc..
Typically we'd buy the record album, then record it to tape and that we the record stayed in mint condition. if the tape got wrecked, then you'd simply record another.
I never bought Store bought tapes because they were almost always recorded poorly on bad quality tapes.
It was a wonderful Era nonetheless.
I can relate to you guys… the DJ keep talking at the song intro right
I travelled the world with a Walkman and a bunch of cassettes in my backpack back in the 80’s. Those were the days.
Bunch of batteries too, I guess 😅
Good times.
You buy it, IT IS YOURS until it breaks unlike SONY/Streaming/NETFLIX locking you out of your 1990s car stereo!
and spotify. they stopped some songs
I bought a handful of songs (not a big music person) before 2010 from iTunes and Amazon. All still available for me to stream or download on iPhone (while at least don’t see Apple or Amazon going out of business anytime soon)
Exactly!
So much better than having to find space to store everything. Cassette Tapes are also one of the worst more recent formats music came on when it comes to quality and tapes degrade even if you take care of them. This is a trend that doesn’t make much sense.
@@sixplicit2977 There's a reason it was vinyl that made a comeback, and not the cassette, nor the 8 Track.
I still have all my tapes AND play them on Sunday mornings, usually. Love the sound and the nostalgia to play it on an 80's stereo that works perfectly.
Facts
I still have my CD cassette stereo on my dresser collecting dust I don’t even know if it still can play cassettes with the advent of digital music all my music is on my phone and I just connect my Bluetooth speaker so my stereo is just sitting there unplugged I still have cassettes i just can’t seem to toss the stereo out I’m sure the drive belts for the cassette player has long since degraded because they are rubber I hope cassettes do come back so I can dust old girl off and bring her back to life and if companies are willing to make stereo cassette players that can improve sound quality of my older tapes I would buy a new stereo system lol
I have all of mine also and they go back 60 years and all still work. oops I am giving away how old I am
no ads on my MP3's, cds and mini disks
Mini discs are the best!
I wish my damn DVDs didn't have unskippable ads.
Also your tracks can't be retroactively removed by licensor unlike digital.
@@balsalmalberto8086 That's why get a ton of hard drives. Cassettes and VHS sucks. The way they degraded and were too clunky and difficult to copy for family and friends. I'm not too young or old to forget the nightmare.
You have to have a really great budget for minidiscs these days but I agree - they are amazing. Much more interesting and fun than mp3s or steaming IMO. But I'll take my music any way I can get it. I bought the first MZ-1 when it first came out and later collected discs and machines. Down the rabbit hole we go! ;)
The reason is you own it, and it’s yours not like the subscription and cloud nonsense companies want so they can make more money.
I own all my digital MP3s saved on my hard drive. I have never used a subscription or cloud.
They don’t make more money, they make way less nowadays. Subscriptions per month are cheaper than buying just one CD or cassette album.
@@abc33155They are but you don’t really own them. You just rent them. I still do it so I’m not trying to put it down but I also keep my favorites on mp3 so I’ll have them.
@@sci-fi.tsunamiI do both but it is good to keep the favorites because with streaming you pretty much just rent them while you’re subscribed.
I get the argument, never streamed a song in my life other than watching classic videos on UA-cam, but why the subpar audio quality and lack of durability of cassettes when CDs exist? Unfathomable to me, who lived through the poor media quality of the late 70s to 80s.
Back in the days when I worked at Circuit City, I remember the cassette phased out during the early 2000 . Cassettes are the least expensive devices to produce and replicate. They are also the most popular devices to use for EVP recording. They still work today , better than digital recordings.
For those wondering like me what the hell you are talking about: “Within ghost hunting and parapsychology, electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are sounds found on electronic recordings that are interpreted as spirit voices. Parapsychologist Konstantīns Raudive, who popularized the idea in the 1970s, described EVP as typically brief, usually the length of a word or short phrase.”
EVP Recording 😂
@@GladeSwope That's what happens when things go obsolete. Obsolescence is a scam.
No, they aren't better than digital.
@@bobm9509 they are more practical and dont need internet.
I'm personally drawing the line on 8 tracks coming back😂
Cassettes predate 8 tracks actually. Now reel to reel is where it's at!
8 track sucks!! Muffled mess 🗑️👎
Sorry, sticking with my CD’s.
Bull 💩@@SgtJoeSmith
@@bobd9868yeah and you probably support Trump also CDs are trash the worst
My Sony Walkman Cassette player from the late 80's still works.
Will this increase the sales of pencils too?
knife blades, nail files, pinky fingers, writing pens and even a tightly rolled up napkin all can do the trick..........
The old clear Bic pen was the perfect fit.
@@jimcabana9309 Exactly! you always had to take up that slack in the tape! or do a total rewind by spinning it around in the air!
I used a pinky finger which is free so IDK but quality comment 😂
👍
I run a cassette duplication rig for a merch shop and can vouch for these being the go-to for independent musicians; our orders keep increasing
My car only takes cassette tapes (Saturn 99). What shop is it and do you guys do online orders?
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So you pirate music....... hee hee. Movie reference.
I still have a walkman and all my tapes. I also have a cassette deck which plays cds. My generation don't throw stuff away just because something new comes along.
@@lexluthor9509 Quite sure. Beware the Squander Bug was drilled into me as a child. OCD is not the same as being thrifty. They're not organised by artist or anything. 🙂
Still got mine too 🤣 no OCD hear, what people fail to understand is that not artists went to CD or Streaming media
@@lexluthor9509 You are incorrect. I do not blame my behaviour on syndromes. You do you. I like to use stuff until it breaks.
@@phoenixr6811 I love my tapes. I can't afford to replace them all with other media.
Most of my tapes wore out. So did all of my machines, they all died. Had to buy CDs. And then I went through about a dozen portable CD players too LOL, and I thought Napster and MP3 were a god send, being able to play and carry an iPod with all my songs LMAO
That's how our band in the 70s learned how to play songs before UA-cam. We'd keep rewinding the tape till we got every note right.
You can buy brand-new cassette players and recorders in Japan.
I'm going to Japan!!!
You can here too (e.g., Fiio, We Are Rewind). Problem is, they all use the same mechanism, so they are all pretty much the same and not all that great. But they are fine starting points for kids who want to get into it, so I’m not gonna hate.
You can still purchase brand new "professional" TASCAM decks in North America.
@@RobCamp-rmc_0, yes, those use the ONLY real cassette mechanism still produced, which is a knockoff of an old Tanashin mechanism. It can never be great, but it can be made decent with good playback heads and electronic circuits, plus they are pretty reliable.
@@joshwilkesbooth 30 years ago these would sit firmly in the bottom row... Do we still have the luxury of buying and using low-rent tape transports while there are still plenty of top-of-the-line decks on the market? sure, bringing them back to "like new" specs is pricey but IMO worthwhile.
My old $300 Walkman (with equalizer, TV audio, dual sided playback) broke years ago, and I was able to buy it on eBay for $35 including shipping. Once I got a $3 replacement drive from Norway, I was able to listen to all my old college tapes…brought me back to younger days….
Let's hope QUALITY stereo cassette recorders start being made again along with decks with DOLBY NR & metal tape bias. Chrome tapes were sooo good.
I agree, I still buy NOS chromies from the 90s. But as for truly high-quality decks, I'm afraid nobody's going to commit to make those anymore.
FACTS...the tdk chrome/ metal tapes. Good sound bass be pumping
I used to buy TDK SA90's by the boat load back in the late 70"s and 80's. I liked Maxells also and I'd buy Fugi tapes on a budget.
I still have my Technics SU-V6X set up with some book shelf speakers, it sounds great with CD's. Would be awesome to add a quality double cassette deck back in to my hifi system.
All you young-uns can go ahead and have fun wit'ch "new" toys. I've been there, done that and own the shirt. The shirt has worn out ages ago, however but I am not goin' back.
Back in the 80's, making a mixtape was a Saturday night if you had nothing else to do. Sunday morning,"hey, what did you do last night?", me"stayed at home, made a great mixtape for the gym". Everyone knew what that meant.
There are no ads on tapes!! And the audio quality last longer.
This will make my dad happy. He has every cassette, laser disc, and dvd he's ever bought.
I still have a sealed TDK tape, maybe some day I will use it.
Still got my Walkman
Me too 😁
Did you just get it or have you had it for awhile?
I remember that I used my dad's walkman in 2000. as a little girl. It was so cool. I miss those times
#walkmanforever
My daily driving Tacoma from 2002 has a great sounding tape deck & I have like 100 cassettes that I like...
My 2004 Toyota Sienna has cassette tape player AND CD player…
I listen to tapes all the time in my '99 Miata. They take up less space than CDs in a car where space is very limited, and they sound just fine, plus they're cheap enough where I don't have to worry about what happens to them.
My 11 yo son is obsessed with cassettes, 8 tracks and vhs camcorders. He’s actually de-digitized some of his media to cassettes and vhs 😂. I wondered if I was witnessing the beginning of a trend where gen z&a begin to migrate back to analog technology and blend digital and analog tech in novel ways in the future
Ive herd of 12 year olds now, getting into retro gaming too so, you never know
The biggest draw back to cassette tapes aside from sound quality was waiting to fast foward or rewind to your desired song.
i had this hifi system, which nobody believes, the cassette actually has a track skip, repeat everything a cd player does...but it does it in a crude way, say you want to repeat a song, you hit the repeat button, what it does is, after the song is completed it stops and rewinds it back to the start of the track and plays, without knowing the technical side of things my guess is it can detect a blank spot between each song and rewind/fastforward to the next blank spot, works the same way as skipping tracks forward and backward
@@MrQ12elve I had an Alpine cassette deck in one of my vehicles in the 90's that did this, I'm pretty sure your right about detecting the blank between tracks.
@@MrQ12elve, yes, that feature was called things like "music search" or "track search". I have a Pioneer deck from the late 90s that will do that pretty well.
No it's not like that, it can prevent you to urge to skip the album that is why I love that than stream mp3 or even cds
I had tape players that did that, but you still had to wait.
I know it's only 3%, but my bet for the future is on digital downloads. I'm sensing people are becoming uneasy with not owning anything. But at the same time, they don't want the inconvenience of physical.
Personally, as something of a musician myself, I am considering a situation where I release only a portion of my music on streaming platforms and limit the rest to buy-to-own only, in both digital and physical format. I want to reward the people who make a direct contribution to my income the way they deserve and also, well...
I refuse to have streaming platforms cash in on work that I invest literally thousands of dollars into while I get paid spare change.
The future is definitely about streaming, even more so than downloads. A lot of people I know, even people in their 50s and older who always had physical product available, have dumped all of their hard copy and moved to streaming, mostly out of convenience. In the '90s, my band made vinyl. Many people said, "I'd buy it if it was on CD." Nowadays, "I don't have a CD player. Is it on Spotify?" I'm with you on everything you've said. However, I will definitely continue to release my music on hard copy (vinyl, CD) as well as digital. Go for everything that pays. Digital is like passive income. Yep, Spotify and others like it suck because we make pennies (more like % of pennies) on the dollar.
@@Ted_James i think there may be a generational gap. i think a lot of young ppl like me are starting to get tired of streaming, at least people who enjoy active listening. sure streaming is convenient, but there's something about a physical analog item like a cassette. it's hard to rewind / fast forward / skip, you have to be intentional. additionally tape saturation just gives a really nice sound, imo. i'm someone who grew up during the era of cds so i don't even actually have nostalgia for cassettes, but i love the physicality of magnetic tape, and also the cheapness of them. it's kinda like democratized ownership of music. there's also something about cds that makes them not as interesting as cassettes, probably bc the media is digitized and perfect- cassettes feel like a living thing.
i make music as well, and make cassettes. spotify is for convenience, but cassettes are love.
I kept the box of tapes I had from the '80s. I knew they would eventually come back. Our third car has a casette stereo, so I still get to listen to them📼
All that's old is New again.... glad I held onto my tapes for when I was a teen.. love it...
I'm still buying them.
The music industry was once terribly afraid, *_Home_* *_Taping_* *_Is_* *_Killing_* *_Music!_* Instead, it launched the *_cassette_* *_culture_* phenomenon. Many bands that are now super-famous would never have started without it.
Do I remember that or do I remember that? I remember the skull-bones but with the cassette being the skull. I an article remember citing that the one who tape music a lot also had a large record collection. I can vouch for that. I have over a thousand records during the 80s. Even in high School I had quite a few 12" and 45rpm records that I made my "mix-tapes" with. I couldn't play records in my Walkman. I could have bought a portable, battery-operated record player but imagine me walking down the street with a bag loaded with vinyl records and my portable player. Oh how cumbersome. Trying lugging a bunch of groceries home with a portable record player and a bunch of records.
Cassette tapes were the last hold-out. They remained though the 1990s and into the 2000's before they would soon disappear. I haven't the space for physical media and so it's reserved for a very few items.... and playing my music on my phone beats lugging a bunch of cassettes and/or CDs around.
@@GladeSwope most people have no idea how good recordings on a Tascam 4/8-track (for example) can sound in the hands of a meticulous recordist.
And the same with VHS and Betamax. The movie and TV industry wanted to even have a tax on blank video tapes to reimburse them for "losses."
Like vinyl, it's a warmer sound and no one will change the lyrics.
I've heard the warmer sound argument. I have friends that swear by their tube guitar amplifiers. My ears can't tell the difference; even when I was young I couldn't.
If you mean garbled and wobbly, then yeah LOL
@@ScrewyDriverTheMan You mean because the tapes were stored in a 120 degree car interior, or in a humid garage, for 40+ years. And played on a poor-quality deck that hasn't been maintained. Not a fair argument at all.
No. The tapes were analog. They were never going to be able to replicate digital. Especially the EDM type music I was into already, like Jean-Michel Jarre. I switched to CDs and the difference was amazing
@@ScrewyDriverTheMan Of course tapes are analog, but that's not what you meant when you said "garbled and wobbly". Those words imply tapes & equipment that was either low-quality to begin with, or hadn't been maintained properly.
Funny, I started to sell cassettes on tour in 2015... and everyone was amazed... all the artists I met in each city said they wanted to do it. Looks like they did.
Never died for me have most of mine from the 80's &. 90's. I am 47
Only thing that tends to go bad are rubber belts and sometimes capacitors. Remember that.
@@SlavTiger I agree with that I rebuilt a Onkyo ta 2017 a few years ago and it works like a champ
@@bluemantom77 need more people with that fix it first throw it later mindset these days. They dont make it like they used to. Ive met people who's minds were blown that even simple things can be fixed. Think it's a cultural problem.
@@SlavTiger exactly we're losing more people that can do things like that I got lucky growing up and I was told how to do a certain things
@@bluemantom77 always can try to teach others
I have 2 boxes full and I bought a dual cassette player at the pawn shop like new ! The majority of the cassettes play well but some from the heat and storage
Ah, the cassette tape. They meant the entire world to me. Thankfully, I've saved a lot of them over the years for sentimental reasons. The thrill of going to K-Mart, Tower Records, Sam Goody, etcetera and just browsing the cassette tape section...whew! My grandfather buying me Jodeci's _Come & Talk to Me_ or Hi-Five's _Unconditional Love_ are memories that I'll cherish for the rest of my life. I miss sitting in my room and just staring at the artwork for Janet Jackson's _janet._ or carrying Mary J. Blige's _What the 411?_ in my lil' purple fanny pack. Cassette singles were my favorites because I could buy an unlimited amount of them. As the mid '90s emerged, I started buying cassettes, CDs, imports and maxi-singles. My dad couldn't quite understand why I needed Nasir's _Illmatic_ on cassette and CD. Finding European import singles w/ b-sides and rare remixes was the best. Erykah Badu and Mariah Carey had the best imports. Oooh, I need to find my lil' Sony walkman again. See, for me, it's not just music. It's life. I can go on and on for days about this so Imma just leave it here.
My 1997 Lexus ES300 has a tape player.
So does my '05 Honda Pilot....came with a CD player AND a cassette deck which my wife and I thought was odd when we bought it.
@@hondaphan4172 As late as '05? Wow.
I still have my Van Halen's 5150 album in cassette tape bought in 1986. It's nostalgic to see this news.
Love it! That was the album of the summer...😎👍🎸
Having the Alpine 7618 pull out cassette deck while in high school in 1994 was good times.
Just like anyone else I also listened to tons of cassettes and had alot of them but when cd's came out it was just alittle better than cassettes for me but when the smart phone came out and using mp3 downloads, now that's a game changer I much appreciate!! The cassettes and cd's can remain history for me but to be able to download music is priceless
I’ll never go back to tapes. They aren’t long lasting and you can’t skip tracks. Duplicating one takes forever. I burned all my audio media to data disks as backup and have it all stored on a hard drive. My mp3 player works just fine and is super compact. No streaming service can say no to my mp3 player. It’s got no internet connection.
I still got about 300 cassettes LO.L
😂
Me too! 📻😁
I just digitalized all my tapes, I have to find a place that will recycled them
About 1,200 myself
I personally have about 1500 lol
I still have a bunch of cassettes from the 80's and they sound great! Best decade ever!
I'm so old I can remember when I recorded the top 10 from the radio
I guess I should keep my old TEAC tape deck.
"from my cold dead hands!"
I buy and listen to cassettes all the time. It's a less expensive format and you can still support the band. I dig!
I bought some old cassettes in the later 2000s because the music was not available on CDs or iTunes and I had a cassette deck and a CD-r burner so I would burn them and put the music on my iPod.
Is tape less expensive than a cd to produce?
❤❤❤ the idea!!! I still have a box of about 200 of them in my closet AND a cassette player. Guess I’ll have to pull them out!
Tapes are tough and can take a beating. I'll find myself listening to the full album of an artist because
I'm too lazy to pop it out.
I'm a Millennial on the youngest end of the spectrum. While cassettes were commonplace when I was born, digital music would come to be the standard during my childhood as well. Initially this meant music downloads, but I eventually moved to streaming as it seems most people have. I had a large library of digital music on my PC but began to question whether I should keep it when everything is available for streaming. I changed my tune (no pun intended) not long ago, after experiencing a number of digital items disappearing from online platforms including Spotify, UA-cam, and even video games that I had purchased a digital copy of. I realize now that these "on demand" services are a convenience but not a replacement for a collection. So I decided not only to increase the size of my digital library, but to also start collecting physical media, buying CDs and vinyl from my favourite artists--I haven't purchased any tapes, only because I prefer CDs for the fidelity or vinyl for the album art. I have a fairly large shelf that is full and will continue to grow--while I will acquire digital copies of most of the music I like, I will be sure to acquire physical copies as well for my absolute favourites. Additionally, I purchase physical copies of video games whenever possible now both to avoid a game being bound to a certain account, that game eventually not being downloadable anymore, and because you can eventually sell the game or even just give it to someone else to enjoy which can't be done with digital.
I just said this ! I was born in 94 so I’m 3 years off from a zoomer and now I always thought I was a proper millennial but it seems with a lot of experiences im leaning more elder zoomer these days. I saw cassettes but never really used one irl. By the time I entered kindergarten in 2000, cds reigned supreme. If vhs is bought back I’d totally be on board for that!
Good I can play new ones in my 80s classic car👍
One thing with audio and video cassettes you should do. Wind to the end then rewind every so often. It helps to prevent magnetic print through from one layer to the layers either side. On audio tapes you would hear an echo. It also improves the tension… less need for pencils!
The compact cassette format that Philips introduced in 1963 is the technology that truly brought recorded music to the masses. Sturdy, portable and cheap, it really was revolutionary. Its popularity really exploded around 1980 with the introduction of the Sony Walkman. My first ever compact cassette album that I purchased was ZENYATTA MONDATTA by The Police in 1980 !
Its hard to imagine it came out in 1963 and didn’t catch on till the 80s
If you buy an old cassette deck from a thrift store, you need to remember a few things -- It's a mechanical device that needs a lot of maintenance. Not only do you need to clean the heads, but you should get the heads demagnetized to ensure the best audio quality. You can buy a demagnetizer or take it to an electronics repair shop to have them do it. Also, the motors need to be in good shape, and the rubber belt that drives the spools will degrade over time and break. There aren't too many companies around making cassette deck motors, and replacement parts may be very hard to find.
".. take it to an electronics repair shop .."
These damn near do not exist. No one repairs electronics anymore, the ypush for you to buy new stuff. There used to be 3 where I live
Yes, dirty heads can even degrade the quality of a clean tape.
Using cassette tapes with the right recorder, with mic meters & decent wired attached microphones. The sound is AMAZING!
Yes it is...in the late 1970's I put on cassette tape so many of my LP's somehow they sounded better to me taped
rather then just played on the turntable . Miss my old Sony TC5M
When cassettes we're phased out around 2000s I thought the sound quality was just as good as a CD .
CDs became the favored listening format over cassettes.
It would be cool if they came out with a new and improved cassette.
I still have all my tapes from the 80s, live concerts and a few albums.
They still sound good. Gave all my albums away because they were
a burden to move. Cassettes were far smaller, and manageable.
Some live concerts with AC/DC, Jefferson Starship, Led Zepplin,
Stones, Motley Crue, and I mean early first album stuff. The Cars,
UFO, Tom Petty, Queen, The Alarm, Steve Miller Band, Van Halen,
Heart, Santana, Pretenders, Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam, Ted Nugent,
Styx, Manferd Mann, The Police, Foreigner, Sting, Aerosmith, Lindsey
Buckingham, Peter Frampton, Rush, Night Ranger, Ozzy Osbourne,
The Who, ZZ Top, Sammy Hagar Scorpions, Boston, Guns & Roses,
Journey, Bon Jovi, Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, Eric Clapton,
Fleetwood Mac, U2, Judas Priest, REO Speedwagon, Dire Straits,
Devo, Survivor, Eddie Money, Don Henley, Pat Benatar, Todd Rundgren,
Pink Floyd, Robert Plant, Steve Winwood, Asia, Kick Axe. Right there
are thousands of dollars someone will spend searching online for these
rare concerts. Most tapes were good quality, and not the made in Mexico
brands that had the music fade away after time.
The glue that adheres the iron oxide to the tape transfers to the rollers. It's inevitable that, even with cleaning, eventually all cassette tapes will fail. Even if it doesn't get demolished by the player, the material will flake off and you'll have a tape that has snap, crackle and pop included. Also, the tape will stretch. Another problem is reverse side bleed over.
Thank you! Someone that remembers. They were a catastrophe. I don't miss them and they're a waste of resources too. Never turning back from my trusty MP3s and digital video. I would have killed to have an MP3 player and a Smartphone in High School. These kids have no clue how good their tech is.
Reminding me of the days of the mixed tape.
Got your tape, and it changed my mind….
It's even more convenient if your tape deck has auto-reverse.
Still have my RunDMC and Slim Shady LP on cassettes ❤
It's not just big stars that benefit. Garage bands playing in small venues can easily make tapes. With the proliferation of software available for mixing, all they need is a laptop and a tape recorder and they can make a couple dozen tapes at home to give away or sell to their fans. I know, give away? What a concept!
I like cassettes because on some machines you can play them backwards.
Tapes have that warm lofi sound that we love.
They do! 👍
A real cassette "revival" for me would be manufacturers making Hi-bias blank tapes (type II and IV) and higher quality recording and playback decks and of course, the pre-recorded tapes with type II & type IV tape stock compatible to CD and vinyl quality sound.
NAC in Missouri is making cobalt-based type II’s, though they’re arguably not as hifi as the older formulas (which can no longer be made due to environmental restrictions). Hopefully they continue to improve the formula for the new ones.
@@ericvannielsen Personally I just buy NOS chromes from the late 80s and early 90s
They're already making Type II but not up to the quality of new old stock tapes! Forget new Type IV metal tapes, very likely not going to happen due to environmental restrictions on the materials used!!!
Perhaps DATs should make a comeback, although they never really were for commercial use like cassettes but the sound quality would be like high-quality cassettes and CDs and they were much smaller than cassettes and the player could be about the size of an iPod.
Last-generation old-stock type IIs like Maxell UDII are still much cheaper than any new products (and far superior). Easy choice.
The thing? It's called a cassette player.
Now we're talking... Im glad the 80s still have a big influence on certain things
Seems 80s nostalgia will never die
I even had the cassette player restored in my old Chrysler so I could rock on while cruising
I'd say its simply all about the novelty and the nostalgia... Personally I'm into the humble CD...
From the 2021 THE GUARDIAN Article on Lou Ottens, inventor of the Cassette Tape. "Ottens had little patience with the renewed popularity of the cassette tape - or even vinyl.
“Nothing can match the sound of the CD, it is absolutely noise and rumble-free. That never worked with tape … I have made a lot of record players and I know that the distortion with vinyl is much higher. I think people mainly hear what they want to hear.” ...
Tapes are just fine for driving. The CD's advantages are lost once the car's engine, tires and wind kick in. For serious sit-down listening, Ottens is correct. While cleaning house or doing dishes, not so much. Singing along and playing drums on the steering wheel? We know that answer!
you can look for all my old cassettes in the dump. i couldn't give them away.
If you keep your tape deck maintained, you shouldn't have any issues with your cassettes, unless they are not stored properly. The cost of new releases should not be the same price or more than the price cd's. That's the only problem I have.
It's even more convenient if your tape deck has auto-reverse
Nostalgia of my teens and twenties.
I have a Denon cassette deck from the early 2000's barely used, double deck. Should be good quality compared to whatever you can get now that isn't used. Maybe I'll keep it as I'm currently using it as a TV stand.
My favorite physical mediums in order of preference:
1. 33 and 1/3 vinyl
2. Reel to Reel
3. Compact Disc
4. Cassettes
5. Vinyl 45
6. 8 track tapes
Vinyl is like the Rosetta Stone. The contents last forever.
Tapes and vinyl are analogue media. They capture ALL of the audio levels from low level to high. I always feel I am missing something on cds as the levels are digitally coded to the nearest binary number. (Quantised) so some information is lost in the gaps. You can watch a analogue tv pic through the “snow” but a digital pic just falls into pixel blocks
Cassettes making a comeback in the age of UA-cam is quite unexpected.Yet it feels good to be in the nostalgic mode.
Sound Quality can be really good if you have quality gear. Try a TDK Metal Tape or TDK AR-X, you will be surprised!
I love that the young reporter didn't know what to call a tape player, boombox, or stereo... she just called it a machine!
I still have all my cassette collections with Sansui amps & Aiwa double deck casette players, still works
Definitely miss the cassette tape era.
Cassettes are awesome! Cassette tapes overtook vinyl records in 1984, making up almost 53% of all album products shipped to trade that year, up 30.1% from the previous year. Cassettes remained the dominant format in the United States and the UK until 1992, when CDs took over.
In the USA, cassettes made it into the early 2000s. I bought mainly cassettes in the early to mid 1990s.
It's really cool to have cassette tapes especially with fun colors that you can actually put into your pocket or a backpack to listen to with a tape recorder on hand at your own convenience.
Cassettes have a warmth that digital can't give you. Tape pumps, ebbs and flows with the sound, and instruments blend together more. The tactile element is cool too; the clicking, whirring, button-pushing... very satisfying.
Well I still have some blank cassettes in the wrapping. Let’s roll. 😮😂
I'm 22 years old I'd been making my own cassettes for quite sometime id started in 2013 recorded off the radio and i also do studio mastering with type IV METAL and man them things sounds amazing
But dont get me wrong a type 1 can also sound good i usually go for the TDK D 90 OR the sony hf and the TDK AR-X
Also the maxell UR
The deck i have is a KENWOOD KX-97CW id recently changed the belts and its holding up quite well
Agreed, it's so easy to score a box of NOS chromies or even metals for a good price
I still have my four track cassette/mixer recorder. You put a metal sticker on the back of the cassette that told the recorder it was now four tracks. I still have pages of those stickers. This thing is a looker, too. The Yamaha MT44D/RM602 Multitrack cassette recorder and mixer with RB35B patch panel
You can get a very high quality sound from a cassette tape, is much more than another nostalgic toy. Remenber that a vinyl record is nothing more than a cheap and fast copy of a magnetic tape.
Did not think the manufacturer were still making tapes.
Every major artist and record label is putting out cassettes.
@@tturner12341 thanks for the info, it was new info to me. I worked in the electronics field at a nation wide retailer until their 2017 bankruptcy. After around 2013-14 we no longer had suppliers for the blank tapes or the equipment to play or record. I still have my tape deck hidden away somewhere in the house.
I still have about 400 cassettes with no way to play them
Come by. You can use my cassette deck.
Sell them for a grand !
Pawn shops................
Amazon sell loads of Tape players and Walkmans, so no real excuse for not owning a Tape player unless money is an issue (no offense)
I have 3 Cassette decks ranging in age from the late 70s to the mid 90s and over a hundred cassettes, some of which date back to the late 60s and I absolutely enjoy them even today.
Analog is special and it will definitely make a comeback, the souvenir factor for cassette is simply unmatched by any digital format like streaming or on computer. The natural vibe value is simply incomparable.
My parents ( well my mother now ) have hundreds of cassette tapes. Growing up we listined to them, some sounded better than CDs of of today. My mom still has her 1985 Boom Box ( as she calls it ).
Also referred to as ghetto blaster.
@@mattdonna9677 ... I think so.
Where can you find a good quality cassette deck in 2024 that’s priced reasonable ? Why not cds over cassettes
CDs rule! Cassettes SUCK!
There are plenty of mid quality 2 head decks around. You might have to get some maintenance done, usually just belts and a cleaning of the heads.
Depends on your definition of quality. Nobody makes a deck that's as good as they were in the 80s. But you can buy a used one that's been refurbished.
@@80s_Boombox_Collector don’t buy used especially electronics
Depends on what u get nostalgic for
I used to love tapes and enjoyed them for years , but no more tapes or vinyl for me , not worth it.
She obviously didn't care for her tapes. I still have mine and they work. You can tape your choice of music. Now we just need tape players.
Audio quality even with metal or chrome tape is poor. Better than 8 tracks worse than reel to reel tapes. Vinyl is the best but for convenience I’d rather burn a CD or stream/mp3. Yea that sound is compressed but it’s still better than cassettes. Vinyl is just the king of listen to music the right way as long as you have quality vintage equipment
Do they sell the cassettes with a bic ballpoint pen? You can’t have one without the other…
Just the other day a friend pulled a bic click out of his shirt pocket. I said, "No, they still make those?!"
Everything old is new again. When I was young I had a huge collection of music on cassette and vinyl. Now it's all coming back. I remember getting a mixtape from my boyfriend.
I'm from that era ... and have fond memories of making mix tapes etc. But, I also know I'll never buy another cassette tape again. LOL
I thought Dolby HX Pro so fucken cool.