Why did you left cassettes?

[Jace-BeOS]

Because apart from being able to make copies and mixtapes (which both rock) they were total shit.

This is why it makes me mad that Sony was so stupid with their minidisc marketing. should have been targeted as a replacement for cassettes, not CDs. Imagine the ads where they could show hot young people compiling mix discs for their new love interests... and then ending with some older couple doing the same... and we’d all go “awwwww!” because advertising supposedly works so well...

[Jace-BeOS]

Can we agree to a stop to all these why you left-threads?

This one was a satire thread but I intentionally took it seriously because I actually had an opinion (shock and surprise, I know).

[Jace-BeOS]

Technology moved on and I had no choice but now I am glad about it. I love my CDs. Probably soon have to move on from there too. World don't stay the same for long. We must become like a reed in the wind and bend gracefully with the elements so that we don't break. We must be like the clouds in the sky......

Eh... I refuse to bend nearly as much as laissez-faire capitalism demands. I am more like the tree that fractures in the industry’s wind... and I hate when the industry breaks wind...

[Robmobius]

Because I ran out of pencils.

[Robmobius]

Can we agree to a stop to all these why you left-threads?

Yes please...

However, it won't happen alas.

[Ksamphos]

Technology moved on and I had no choice but now I am glad about it. I love my CDs. Probably soon have to move on from there too. World don't stay the same for long. We must become like a reed in the wind and bend gracefully with the elements so that we don't break. We must be like the clouds in the sky......

Eh... I refuse to bend nearly as much as laissez-faire capitalism demands. I am more like the tree that fractures in the industry’s wind... and I hate when the industry breaks wind...

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the Wind.

[Dirtgrain]

Man, I miss that satisfying feeling of inserting and 8-track cassette into the player.

With the smaller cassettes, there were different pleasing feelings. Getting the routine of changing out down to muscle memory was groovy. The standalone tape recorders that some would use in the office (or wherever--we had one at home) had pleasing buttons to push.

In fifth grade, I went to the mall with my friend Kelly. He taught me to be a boombox connoisseur. The key to a quality one was the smoothness and flow of little cassette holder door thing when it opened and closed--and the sound it made in the opening and closing. I fell in love with the Panasonic Platinum.



I begged my parents to get it for me for Christmas. They got me a cheap piece of crap instead. We didn't have a lot of money back then, but somehow I had fooled myself into thinking the Platinum could be mine. So it goes.

When CDs came along, I was in high school, and I had become a bit of a record collector. I had an argument with Trutsi at the front porch of my high school where students would smoke, play hacky sack, hang out. Trutsi was a budding audiophile. He would talk about CDs the way beer nerds can spend an hour at a party talking about hops. Trutsi told me about the supremacy of CDs, how they allowed for a more pure listening experience. He had the same kind of tone we all have taken on here in the forums at some point, and I did all I could to stand up for records (but not cassettes). He was right in some ways.

When streaming became popular years later, I wondered how he would have reacted. I read an article quoting Neil Young (or Art Garfunkel? Hmmm), saying how music listeners today are getting robbed of the experience of listening to quality recordings. Trutsi probably agrees.

And these days, some are going back to records. Go figure.

[lotus2035]

Cassettes could absolutely sound as good as CDs but most people bought the shittiest, cheapest, ferro cassettes and played their 4th generation copies of their fav albums on shitty discount hi-fi systems, boom boxes and bargain bin walkmans and then complained it sounded like shit, (including me. )
However, play an album on an original type 4 cassette on a decent hi-fi system, with dolby s noise reduction activated and it would sound a million times better than half of the horrible sounding crap on youtube, spotify and most other streaming services today.

But erm, I left them because they left me back in the early 2000s, although I still have a box of tapes up in the attic.

[revvy]

I saw that video. Love a bit of technomoan.

They're still crap though!

You must be doing something wrong if Spotify as a platform sounds crap. Obviously it has some crappily encoded stuff but generally what I listen to sounds good.