ever tried jogging wi an 8track???Not much better than the dreaded 8 track tape.
I don’t really miss them.
ever tried jogging wi an 8track???Fortunately I skipped the ridiculous 8-track and went straight to cassette. I loved it when the tape started winding around the capstan and you frantically ran for the machine to stop the self-destruction and see if you could salvage the tape.
What an abomination these things were.
I had a Sony TC-640 reel-to-reel tape recorder before the cassette and it was wonderful in the home stereo system. It had an absolutely bullet-proof tape transport. But to make a mix back then was such a huge pain in the next — queueing up your songs on the albums, starting the tape at the right instant, repeating that process all in real time. Ugh.
I thought CDs were an absolute Godsend with superb sound quality and instant changing to any song. Then MP3 — wow.
For a good 15 to 20 years I ripped my entire CD collection to MP3, then continued buying used CDs and borrowing them from the public library to build up my home digital library. It wasn’t that long ago I finally settled on Spotify and use it almost exclusively now. My hearing is declining in my late 60s now, so Spotify sound quality is all I need. No interest in Tidal.
That’s not true! Unless you can tell me why a cassette wouldn’t play the other side in reverse when you flipped it over, you have no standing in this somewhat tech geek forum sir!
“Not much better than the dreaded 8 track tape.”
From a sound standpoint it was worse. 8-track using 1/4” wide tape running at 3 3/4 ips vs cassette tape using 1/8” wide operating usually at 1 7/8 ips. Less surface area per second of music.
I remember when cassettes came out. From a practical standpoint they were nice but I could tell the audio quality was not as good as 8-tracks.
Of course 8-tracks had their own problems as we all know.
I still use cassette tapes on road trips, most of the music I recorded was in the 70s and 80s,those tapes are 40 years old and work fine, my old jeep does not have CD and in the wide open spaces Pandora does not always work.