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RE: SONY Pro Walkman cassette player

I lived with cassettes for the first 15 years of my life. They were not not the key to analog sonic bliss. They got stretched, magnetized, demagnetized, full of drop outs, worn out and dull sounding, and that all happens in 10-15 playbacks. Having to keep the heads clean for optimal sound quality and the pinch roller clean so it won't eat your tapes. Always loved playing through a garbled section of previously eaten tape. Warm smooth analog sound there.

Cassettes produce the equivalent of 8 bit sound even on a well recorded and never before played cassette. It only goes downhill from there. Measurable things like wow, flutter, and signal to noise ratio are abysmal.


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