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- First vinyl records made a comeback, and now there’s an even newer trend in music: The lowly tape cassette is making a comeback, and there are sales numbers to prove it. TODAY’s Carson Daly reports.
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Hit Rewind: Cassettes Are Making A Comeback | TODAY
I guess people don't understand that if you have the right equipment, a cassette can sound heavenly!
And for a cheap price! Bought a really nice cassete player at a flea market for 5 Bucks and its amazing with a pair of Kef vintage Speakers i have. Better than most of my cds
I have a really nice tape deck with a Harman/Kardon hk350i stereo. I'm sure I have the right stuff.
Noël Treviño I love cassettes. I agree many people think of cassettes in a bad way, probably because of the cheap Chinese hunk boomboxes etc.
I got a few decks with Dolby s. Now that was something! I love cassettes and they sound good!
Noël Treviño absolutely agree. Metal tapes on a high end deck with Dolby S or DBX is amazing.
yup....i think people finally getting tired of digital.
It isn't just tapes. Records are also making a comeback. I think people just prefer the analog sound over the digital one. I like CD's, but I would much rather listen to an old record or tape.
It's not about the sound, like they pointed out quite accurately it's about the physicality. Kids nowadays grow up with everything digital so it's only natural that when they find out there are physical media that they want to explore those.
Digital is universal and elegant but doesn't have alot of room for error when it comes to creativity. Coding is something you learn, but you can't create it because other computers are not programmed to know what you're talking about. With analog media on the other hand, you can simply manipulate them the way you want and then you can convert it to digital files for distribution. It's a very natural process of hybridization, first we had an analog revolution, last century we had the digital and now we're figuring out the best of both :)
We also had bigger and better systems and speakers. Not these tiny 1-2inch speakers in stores now days xD
I much prefer the analogue sound. It seems to have so much more breathing space between the instruments that seem to have a beginning, middle and end decay. Sounds tend to sound too mished together on digital especially CD's where they tend to have an artificial brightness or brutalness that tends to be fatiguing on the ears particularly at highish volume. Analogue just seems to sound so much smoother and detailed.
@@MatrixAlphaCWX ikr,I got a 16 speaker system and it still jam. I still play CD's records and tapes,old skool still rock's
i have over 2000 heavy metal cassette tapes from the 80's and 90's and they still sound just like i opened them i am glad cassette are back
Now that’s quite a collection you have there!
cheaper than vinyl & cd
Exactly
I think cd might be cheaper
@@nicholasboynton703 nah bruh, I always buy cassettes at .50 - 2.00 , im sure Cds are like 2 - 5. Idk
Minecraft is the best are we talking used becuase I know for both licensing the music is the majority of the cost
@@nicholasboynton703 used, but new cassettes and new cds are expensive
I love them. Nostalgia and they sound good.
Analog Sound warm crisper too!
This prove that 80's was the best decade off all.
lol I bought a Walkman recently and im only 15. I love vintage items and I also bought Music Mix V.1
Colombian Gweedo me too so much
Colombian Gweedo same but I'm 14
Congrats
I’m 16 and I bought a Walkman and a nirvana cassette
Same and I’m 12
I remember buying my first cassettes of George Michael 💓 RIP. Still having it. I used to do Mixtapes for my friends back in Highschool for their birthdays. It's a good memory to share with others.
GlennMaxTed LOL i use to give mixtapes as birthday presents as well!
GlennMaxTed why'd you stop I recently got back into cassettes and it sounds awesome it has an organic sounds compared to digit
I still have a cassette player and it still works and I have great old songs on them.
It will cause a resurgence in pencils.
No not pencils, you need a bic square pen
Ye lel
My fingertips always worked fine.
Cheaper than paying 10 dollars a month for friggen spotify
Cassette's in 2020 are booming!
Way more than 2017 guys! Rise Records, huge millennials band label just released all their bands on cassette.
I found out if i record the albums and songs onto cassette from my Sony ZX6 dual cassette hi-fi system and even the cheap Walmart cassette boombox.
When i play them in my Mustang 2006 Cassette deck.
Turning Dolby off, it sounds exactly like the cd. Tons of bass and crystal clear! : D!
ONLY USE DOLBY FOR DOLBY RECORDED CASSETTE's.
If your recording it yourself. Turn dolby off, cars had the option in the menu to turn it on or off.
I use ONN cassette's from Walmart. They are black "not the crystal clear ones" and i have no problems.
My brother thought i was running it through Bluetooth and was like that's a cassette playing that?? : )
I remember cassette tapes ended like around in the mids 2000’s but since couple years back in 2013 the cassette tapes are making a comeback🤘🏽🔥🔥
I'm thinking either summer of 2005 or least December of 2005
My best friend and I collect and trade cassettes. Happy they're making a comeback :)
Man, i just missed the era of making a mixtape for your crush but I would love to see that coming back ;) there's something about it, especially for music lovers.
This is what I have been waiting for!!!!!! YESSS!!!!!!!
Im 14 but old school rocks, baught a walkman and a gameboy color, hope these dont fase out again.
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I was born in 97(i'm 21) and everybody i know remembers casettes , and im pretty sure even the people that are a decent amount younger still remember CDs , i mean cds never even became completely obscure yet lol . Weird how they said millenials never knew music came in a physical format . Yeah, maybe people that are like in elementary school right now.
I love how twenty one pilots' Vessel is the thumbnail
Come back cassettes !!!!! Please!!!
Unfortunately there aren’t many descent “new” cassette decks. Only Teac/Tascam are making new quality ones but even then it’s still using a simple tanashin mechanism.
Yea, it's sad the all the new stock for cassette players are not that good, they even use a mono head as well, it would properly cost them a few cents just to make the heads play in stereo.
Saw vessel so I clicked
Me too!
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I guess we are living in the Analog Renaissance.
Did anyone see the everybody album art cover
Cassettes are making a comeback? I've been using them since I got my first tape recorder way back in 1971 and never stopped!
I bought my tape in 1992 of Jose Carreras Amigos Para Siempre album and my second tape was AC/DC Thunderstruck album not long after, still have them. I have a realistic dual tape deck, its not high end by standard but its great for what I am asking of it. I have several dozen prerecorded and mix tapes that I've been collecting that hasn't stopped.
I even have several dozen vynil records I've collected about the same time.
I for general reasons have always disliked digital sounds over analogue.
I think the girls made more mix tapes than guys, Coda! :)
I'm currently making one
Let's hope VHS will make a comeback.
I have a LL Cool J cassette tape with my Lasonic Ghettoblaster
WOW!!! Which new albums are on cassette?
I love making mixtapes, especially oldies. If you have any suggestions, leave them in my discussion tab on my channel
i used to make spiral curls on the reels, looks freaky esp on a Reel to Reel deck. I also have a sony 8-tk recorder w meters mint.
The younger generation needs cassette players and tapes
I just love analog stereo sound!
Man i haven't heard of cassette since i was six or eight. And I'm from the early 2000s
I never thought cassettes would ever be used again and you would only see them in a museum
Personally I hated VHS, still do, but Audio Cassettes were built really well and Tape Players had really good Battery Life.
Yup, VHS was a seriously flawed piece of technology
I’m looking for a cassette tape player/recorder that can play special tapes. The tapes have the vocal on one track and the instrumental part on the other track. With this player/recorder, you can play the vocal alone, or the instrumental part alone, or both together. I don’t think such tapes are made anymore, but I would be willing to buy the player/recorder to make full use of the tapes in my collection. Anyone know where I might find such cassette players?
HOW TF DOES THE NEWS GUY HAVE A LOGIC-EVERYBODY CASSETTE!??? THATS RARE
In uk they had singles on casett
misschicachu.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-return-of-boom-by-j.html#more
I have my 3 head Technics deck and my DBX Technics cassette deck, both sound fantastic when using my vintage KEF floor Speakers
can't wait to start buying them again.
I love cassettes!
I'm back in Bussiness , plus I know how to repair music cassettes !!
to continue enjoying this book, please turn cassettwe over and begin on side B. and if you experiance any difficaulties while playing this talking book cassettem, oease place a ribbon around one of the sppols, and place cassette braille side down!" were the two announcements i remember hearing when listening to NLS books on tape. was cool how i could speed it up to commercial speed and it'd sound like mice squeaking lol. another cool thing about them nls books was that the books were usually recorded using four audio tracks that were programmed in to the tape using special recording machines such as the aph four track tape recorder model they were selling for a LONG while. oh how i miss cassettes, and i have the opportunity to go back in time as i have two boxes of brand new, still in wrap maxill communicator series pro industrial black tapes. got them from a good friend who is a mini9ster at people's church in beloit. and how bout that bohemian rhapsidy! by queen. was a good band back then, how bout a bit of dire straits walk of life! keep them tapes coming back!
I’m slowly building up my vinyl record collection
Next stop.....minidisc 😂
I want to walk into a store and see Sony UX/UX-S/UX-ES in fresh foil wrappers. TDK MA/MA-X!!! I remember those days. Trouble is, how much will type 2 cassettes cost? I reckon stores will charge €10 a pop out of greed!
In order for cassettes to make a real comeback, companies like Sony, Pioneer and others will have to make quality tape decks. Sony makes good players in their boom boxes, but many don't have a place to plug in a microphone. Also, these are not made to power large speakers. The supply of old tape decks will eventually dry up, and parts will not be available. The big electronic companies are not going to go backwards, they will spend their money on improving CD's and aim for the 95% of people that want the latest, not the latest fad.
I hope by that time some Kickstarter hipster project for a good cassette deck will take off.
i was born on 80,s and i grow up with cassette tape i remember westlife & backstreet boys only way to play on cassette tape i'm teens at that year, and more years to come digital music are came since 2000's first CD format next is MP3 format for CD and then music download digital MP3. but after all that i'm still love and attractive on CASSETTE TAPE its is because the style is so beautiful specially when you play on CASSETTE TAPE DECK. cassette technology even analog is truly amazing!
I hooked it up through
my Pioneer receiver.
I am 20 years old and I prefer cassette than downloads or cds... Cds after breakage are useless than cassette, its reusable. Digital musics only corrupted by Virus unlike Cassette, they lasts forever ... I have a tapedeck here iñ my house and I also create DIY albums of my fav singers
They get scratched or they can also get ruined by dust.
Cassettes get eatin'
The best cassettes - blank cassettes of type II or IV. :) We can record them ourselves. :)
Any body have any suggestions on where to get cassettes ? I was in New York City in Midtown at the Marriott they told me you can't get any tapes but down on Bleecker street they might sell some cassettes? any ideas or suggestions?
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Yes cassettes are coming back ! Like them or not,they are coming back! I personally love my cassette collection.Remember to flick the cassette first,then fast forward,then rewind ! :-) Keep them in a safe place, out of the sun and out of a old moldy dirty basement.Treat ur cassettes good and they will be good to you! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Agreed!
Treat you tech well
Great !!!! Analog sounds great. Tape ll or metal are better.
How can a cassette make a comeback when cassette players are old. Would be nice if Walkman division would come out some 2018 models but without a belt!
finally some positive news!
I read this with incredulity, Oh l embraced the cassette back in the 70s, and for a period my cassette player sat next to my turntable, and tuner.
The sound mediocre, life span short, and sticking issues a trial. Perhaps high tech solutions of today might help this mediums limitations, a faster tape speed might help the sound. I do recall the hiss, and the blanketing effect of the Dolby. In the bowels of Christ do not go down this road, a passing folly.
The Compact Cassette's prime was between ~1985 and 1992. It was the time the best-ever tape formulations were produced. And good cassette decks were available from lots of manufacturers at reasonable prices with really high quality units starting at 400-500 US$. These machines offered low wow & flutter, stable tape transport and were able to be externally fine-tuned (calibrated) to almost all existing tape types with a two-point calibration which was necessary to make Dolby noise reduction work properly to avoid what you call "blanketing effect" which was present due to sensitivity mismatches between tape formulation and recording device. In the late 80's, a really good combination of tape and a properly aligned recorder was almost on a level with properly mastered CDs.
By the early 90's, however, we already had the superior digital tape (DAT) and then the consumer-friendly MiniDisc available. Cassette quality started to go downhill. And from the mid-90's upward, people were able to burn CDs on their computers. The later Dolby S noise reduction system was awesome and Pioneer released the pinnacle recorder, the CT-95, in 1994. But even that thing was unable to save the format.
Compact Cassette, DAT, DCC, MiniDisc ... they all died in the end.
i think cassettes making comeback is GOOD for 1 reason alone, I am sick of radio stations always playing the same FN songs, now if i could figure out how to record Podcast in a cassette make will make drive to work more fun.
I have a bunch of cassette
tapes in my collection.
Film is another analog source making a comeback. Bolex makes 16mm format cameras.
I want one like the one from 13 reason why
I've still got my cassette tape collection but aren't used they're stored away all of them are fully wound
No ones talking about vessel on the thumbnail
You bet no computer needed to "burn" just a couple of buttons. however reminder keep up with royalty laws. Thk
Totally agreed!
I use tapes often, u can record on them easy and store them, they are protected in a case. If u scratch a CD it could be toast, drop on its side, shatters to a million pieces. Not so w tapes. U can splice them repair easier than CDs.
Lauer ready to pounce.
Twenty one pilots!!! Yesssss
PENCILS ARE TOO SMALL!
#PensForRewinding
Cassettes fill a particular need and will probably always be around. CDs may have a better sound, but you can't record on a CD.
Why do people think millennials never used cassettes and cds? Cassettes were still being used in the 90s and early 2000s and cds are still selling today .-.
It wasn't that long ago lol
No thanks I still remember them getting stuck in the car and having to pull them out and rewind them with a pencil hoping it would not break:)
The Darci 13 lol
I still have a good many cassettes some that I spent many many hours making on a high quality stereo (for that day) of old 50's and 60's music. I am going to try to one day get them on a CD:)
That only happens when your car is hot and the tape gets sticky and gets chewed up, that doesn't happen in tape decks. It never happens in tape decks mostly cars, tapes sound great only if you have a good player.
Couldn't skip tracks either
That was not the tapes fault.
I love the cassette
Analog machines will always tend to sound more natural to the human ear because it's apples to apples. Digital has to be converted back to analog to support our ear format. It tends to sound bright and less warm to some. Also, various compression of 128 to 192kbps in MP3s actually reduce the quality below that of cassettes. What people generally remember about tapes when it comes to sound quality was tape hiss along with wow / flutter and maybe their player ate one of their favorite tapes due to a maintenance, calibration or quality issue. Digital was appealing because the hiss, speed variations and flutter are all gone. No rewind or ff and in an instant you can repeat and or drag and drop a file and whalla, your play list. So why is the tape coming back? First, it's a low cost portable alternative to other formats. It's lower price makes the few undesirable aspects of the cassette tape tolerable to the new generation. Next, it is a physical form of expression when given as a gift. A mixed tape has more effort and time invested making it more thoughtful. It's kind of like giving your significant other a home cooked meal by candle light versus a steakhouse gift card or a thoughtful Christmas gift of that item they really wanted (showing you pay attention to them and took the time to make the gift special) versus snatching the gift card at the last second while in line at Wal-Mart. It's a physical format that can be given and that adds the that special moment some of the new generation are looking for. Most who have abandoned the cassette format forever from years gone by have never actually heard a modern cassette being played on a high end machine with HX-Pro, Dolby C or S with closed loop dual capstan mechanism. Therefore, saturated tape hiss along with wow and flutter and eaten tapes forever linger within their memory. With the new formula of tape today combined with a high end deck from the early to mid 90's, tape his is gone, wow and flutter is gone. You no longer have to sacrifice high frequencies to knock down the hiss like Dolby B. I have performed many tests where I asked folks to tell me if I was playing a tape or CD. It was 50/50 on the guesses. Some people are able to pick up on the extra brightness that digital produces. To some this extra detail in the digital format seems unnatural. On the cassettes, the lack of any hiss, the clear piano and guitar sounds lacking flutter and speed variations threw folks for a loop when digital playback was thought to be the source of audio.. You could see the facial expression change when they realized their memory of cassettes and how they sounded was worse than they really could sound. Their memory of sound quality was based on the quality of the machine they had and the recording source along with tape formula they used at the time. There is a youtube video called "Cassettes, Better than you don't remember". I encourage you to watch this. Sums it up quite well.
I have tons of cassette tapes
Dear sir;
Even though the cassette may comeback, I still prefer cd or vinyl to them. Cassettes are good for recording lp’s or cds onto and other things like class lectures, choir practices, etc. I do not care for prerecorded cassettes as they are easily damaged. A magnet will erase them;for example. I preferr the cd recorder by far over the cassette recorder for recording lp’s or other cds or tapes. because of their superior sound quality , durability, and convenience. I would like to see the cd recorder come back as a separate component for home stereo systems.
Sincerely
Tony.
is that carson daly???
I threw away all my cassettes, I will never start cassette again, I’m happy to have CDs, some mass produced cassettes sounded bad in the 80s n 90s and they are pain in the butt, cleaning magnetic head, sometimes tape got stuck, rewind in order to repeat a song. Some cassette single sounded crappy too even with good equipments. Cassettes are the young millennials things.
I grew up with cassettes in 70s & 80s and i love them but i have to say that you are very right about it ,
Cassettes wear out the more we play them cause of the friction with the heads and pintch rollers even if we don't use them the dry out and make the heads even more dirty than fresh cassettes
Vinyl records the same but they last longer than cassettes but they suffer from motor & surface noise
CDs from the other hand last way longer the don't suffer from friction and if we take good care of them they can last a whole human life-time seriouslly i've read that in a hi-fi audio-video magazine back in late 90s in an article which said that CDs can last even 100 years with the same sound quality it's only the CDplayers we need to replace
I have CDs since 1991 and they all sound the same as good as the 1st day i bought them but not even a single one cassette or vinyl record could do that they have sound problems .
CDs are the best for me and they are my main music player as also they've been since i've met them
@@Badassvidsz I heard the bit about CD's lasting 100 years some time in the 90's. I doubt that unless they were very carefully cared for. I've got some records that are 50-60 years old and poorly cared for with a lot of scratches and apart from a bit of surface noise most still play perfectly unlike some CD's I've had from the late 80's that aren't even scratched that suffered disc rot.
Forget cassettes, bring back 8 tracks.
I own a decent Sony cassette player with a
cd player.
MP3 is convenient... but zero the deep music experience and quality
I bet Dolby B,C, and S have not been used now.
I see Twenty One pilots
I click
Yay! Cassettes are B-ACK!!!
Reason why I love them but I hate basf tapes especially they glitter (sticky shed) but not all basf do that
This resurgence is driven by a romanticized idea of what pop culture was like in the recent past. The reality is, modern media formats are so much more versatile and superior in every way.
I think he's wrong about his characterization of millenials. The majority of millenials had physical media when they were children, and many older ones had CDs and tapes when they were in their teens, as well.
Yeah, it's the gen Z'ers who have no idea what physical media is
Why is Matt Lier sitting between two women? Just joshin. Seriously, cassettes can sound really good, but once I used reel to reel I never or rarely go back to tapes. There are three types of tape: ferric, chrome and metal. The metal are the best but ferric gives good bass response. Chrome will give more treble. Metal has the least amount of tape hiss (that airy, snow -like noise caused by the tape particles running against the tape head). There was a fourth tape fornat: ferric chrome, but it never took off. Most tapes are ferric so use Dobly NR during playback but not when recording. Also do not store tapes on top of speakers or anything magnetic. Hope this helps.
Well i do certainly hope that Video Cassettes will make a Comeback soon if possible,
But to be Extra sure & taking the chance for that possibility i have Made a Petition at Change.org for the VHS Tapes to Comeback & Continue Releasing Movies & Show's,
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2019 the reel to reel tapes will be making a comeback
And 8track 2020
I wish they weren't making a comeback. Let the millennials have all their digital downloads and let us 80s kids keep our nice memories.
the return of the comeback.. lol
Please come back to INDIA
Shows you just how far behind the times the MSM is. Cassettes have been making a comeback for years.
Now there are only low-quality cassette players available. I wish that they made high-end cassette decks these days. 3 heads, dual capstan and flywheels made out of metal. Walkman style cassette players are still made but these are garbage. They are nothing when compared to my sony wm-ex670.
I use cassettes and I'm just 11 I just need a good player.
Dukes of Hazzard sucks. Knight Rider is better. Also if you want a good portable tape player, try Koss PP125. That at least has a 3 band equalizer.
Cassette tapes made a comeback bcoz of rappers and bands. Example- Tyler the creator, twenty one pilots
3 years later.. still nothing
The problem is the quality of these tapes are terrible. If they used a hi-end chrome tape and used Dolby-HX then ok, but these are using type I ferric tape, which is awful. Second is the low quality of cassette players on the market. Unless it's a Philips, SONY, Pioneer, Denon or Nakamichi. You will get a very low-fi playback.
Keith Perron just buy a decent late 80s or early 90s deck. I have a 3 head Technics machine with Dolby C and a 2 head Technics technics with DBX, I wouldn’t be touching anything modern lol
Yes. But you never know what your going to get. Also the poor quality of tape now available.
@@NintendoDude888 yeah, but the thing is: cassette tape had its prime between 1987 and 1992 when the best formulations were used. Getting some of those cassettes new will cost you dearly. The stuff that is still being made like the Maxell UR is utter crap from china, though.