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When I went to this site to order Lp to my amazement they offer cassette,have not seen these in over 20 years!
Dawn McCarthy & Bonny Billy: What the Brothers Sang (DC555)
Dawn McCarthy & Bonny Billy
What the Brothers Sang
LP/CD/Cass/MP3/FLAC
Drag City/Palace Records Released 2013-02-19 Catalog # DC555 /PR54
LP $18.00
Compact Disc $12.00
Cassette $8.00
MP3 Download $9.99
FLAC Download $10.99
Al
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I bought a couple a few and will do so again his year if it keeps going. Still enjoy my decks and am discovering new music, which is the point.
big j.
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
Edits: 04/19/14
I never enjoyed the sound of pre recorded cassettes, found some from france and Germany that were much better but I record blues shows off the radio and I am not going to listen to CDs. I dont like the sound Also I own two Historic cars and put in cassette decks and enjoy them while driving. Just dont ever leave them on the seat of your car they will melt into all kinds of shapes. Just my enjoyment. My cassette deck is over 30 years old and have always enjoyed it for that purpose.
I just thought it was unusual that a new recording would be available on a cassette. Don't you?
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There has to be a very tiny market for new releases on cassette.
I was at a local thrift today and picked up two pristine pieces of vinyl, a Virgil Fox LP (late 1980s German import) and an early 1960s Elvis picture sleeve 45, along with three cassettes. The cassettes were $0.25 apiece. The store manager, a good friend, in all seriousness, asked if I'd want to haul off (at no charge) their entire inventory of cassette tapes? No, I declined. There were about 500 cassette tapes there and I only wanted three. For those curious, the three tapes I did buy were: Jesus Jones "Doubt", Mastedon "LOFC Audio", and Drivin N Cryin "Fly Me Courageous.
reel to reel. I just got my Revox PR99 MKII from its restoration project about 3 weeks ago. The sound has improved considerably after the caps replacement and the brand new relapped heads.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
I still have the same Nak cassette deck you have. I bought it about 20 years ago since my wife had a lot of casettes that she had recorded that she was very fond of.
will almost last a life time especially if you look after it well. Mine is in pretty good condition considering its age.
Just for kicks I did some recording on it from Krell Evolution Cipher SACD player, the sound was just as good with no tape hiss noise using the Dolby C noise reduction.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
I'm holding out for the rebirth of Edison's Wax Cyl, it'll doubtless be
even more low fidelity. ;-)
I was a cassette fan, that said the prerecorded cassettes were
the absolute pits, they used really crappy bulk tape and compressed the living shit out of the recordings
... until I got a 3-head Nakamichi BX300 late last year. I bought it to play the 75-odd cassettes I had taped of off-air jazz performances (Jazz Alive, etc.) back in the 70s and 80s. Found that many of them sounded remarkable.
So I tried playing some of the commercial tapes I had from that era and found that, holy cow, they sound pretty damn good. How did that happen? Now a favorite stunt is to have one of them playing when an audiobuddy arrives, without telling him the source. Jaw-dropping ensues.
The NAD was an $800 deck back in the early '80's. Hey, lottsa good music, and the sound ain't bad at all. I certainly have no plans to get rid of the deck or cassettes.
same (non) plans as well
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
Most flea markets sell used pre-recorded cassettes for $0.50 cents
Yes,but this is a new release! That's why I thought it was unusual.
Never liked the Cassette tape . Was glad to see it become obsolete and fade away into obscurity. Vinyl (for me) is another story entirely ... I guess it just depends on what you like.Liked the 8 Track format better than cassettes back in the day ... but I no longer own a player.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
--Zen Proverb
Edits: 04/15/14
Feel the same way. But hey, I also like 78 records and I'm sure many people said the same thing when 33.3 came along about them.
Some prefer the softer sound of audio cassettes compared to other portable media, some are in it for nostaliga and some because it is terminally hip. See link below.
Of course, those whose focus in on resolution will turn up their noses. But, IMHO, resolution is too often stressed over tone and dynamics.
I think that 8-track has lower fidelity yet, but I still prefer the sound of 8-tracks on my modded player.
Eight dollars seems like a lot of money for a cassette. They have the lowest fidelity and the highest noise floor of all the other choices. Furthermore, most of us no longer have a cassette player.
Maybe someone found an old inventory of pre-recorded cassettes they are trying to dump. If you want your music on the cassette format, you will achieve much better fidelity by recording your own cassettes from vinyl or CD. That's what I used to do and they sounded noticeably better than any pre-recorded cassette that I ever bought.
Best regards,
John Elison
A new interest in 7" reels would be pretty cool, though.
nt
I know that. What was funny is that it is a new recording not something that has been around from years ago.
Dang! No 8-track version, I guess?
That is coming. That will be the ultimate in hip! I found a Wollensak 8-track player at a thrift store and would have bought it, except it looked like it had been thrown off of a truck!
Dave
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