Yep. I've got probably a couple thousand cassettes.

Posted by soundnut (A) on March 15, 2012 at 04:39:13

In Reply to: My new experimentation format posted by Bry on March 14, 2012 at 09:53:42:

I've accumulated a lot of 'em over the years. It didn't help when a local grocery store had a row of shopping carts with new cassettes for a dime each. I bought a couple hundred of them that day. I have more music than I will ever be able to listen to in my lifetime.

Anyway, I'm slowly getting the cassettes ripped to digital on the computer, then I'll probably liquidate most of them. I have a 3-head Nak deck, so I can squeeze the best quality out of them on their way into the computer. Other than my main Nakamichi deck, I have a couple of TASCAM 122s and 5 other decks sitting around. The appeal of cassettes is that they're dirt cheap & plentiful. And you can't find a lot of that stuff on CD or LP.

When played back on a properly adjusted machine, most sound mediocre. A few sound like crap and a few sound truly excellent. I don't rip the crappy sounding ones.

Cheers,
Bobbo :-)

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Topic - My new experimentation format - Bry 09:53:42 03/14/12 (7)

cassettes are becoming popular - michael22 10:10:13 03/15/12 (0)

RE: My new experimentation format - nobody 04:47:43 03/15/12 (0)

Yep. I've got probably a couple thousand cassettes. - soundnut 04:39:13 03/15/12 (0)

RE: My new experimentation format - cactuscowboy@bresnan.net 12:40:05 03/14/12 (1)

Just like LPs, people are "shedding" their CD collections as it's so easy - Muzikmike 13:31:43 03/14/12 (0)

RE: My new experimentation format - michaelhigh 11:50:56 03/14/12 (1)

RE: My new experimentation format - must 14:29:05 03/14/12 (0)

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Yep. I've got probably a couple thousand cassettes. - soundnut 04:39:13 03/15/12 (0)

Yep. I've got probably a couple thousand cassettes.

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