https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_tape_cartridge
Posted on 03/10/2021 7:29:37 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin
Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape and a CD pioneer died aged 94 at his home in Duizel in Brabant on Saturday, Dutch media report.
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My first Manufacturing Management Job was working for TDK Electronics in Irvine California. We manufactured up to 7 million blank Cassettes per month. I got an all expenses paid 10 day trip to Japan out of it. I left in 93 right about when recordable CDR’s started getting traction. Five years or so later that Plant was no more along with our 3.5” Floppy Disc Plant which was just down the street.
“When I discovered CD’s, audio tapes got the boot. Then I discovered SACD and DVD-A and CD’s got the boot. Then came Blu-Ray Audio (BD-A) but I didn’t quite give SACD and DVD-A the boot. BD-A, SACD and DVD-A stay alongside in my music collection. I have no use for CD’s, audio cassettes or vinyl. But that’s just me”
Some of those DVD-A’s go for good money, well into the 100’s especially if in sealed Mint condition. I have about 25 and a few more SACD’s. 5.1 mixes of some of the Classic Rock LP’s are pretty cool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_tape_cartridge
A few years ago I brought back from my mom’s house my Panasonic stereo with Thrusters speakers.
It has a built in 8track.
The 8track no longer works, but the radio still does.
It now sits on the bench in my garage with the speakers mounted on the walls.
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Now with many of the unlimited streaming services, I will never need to buy another CD, cassette or vinyl LP again. The sound is better and the speakers are better. Damn near every album I ever wanted is now on my phone or computer
btw, CD is 16-bit digital
In sound quality - best to worse...
Studio master tape
24-bit digital file
Vinyl
CD
MP3 (8-bit)
I've heard studio master tape of Sinatra & Doobies - unbelievably lifelike and light years better than #2
I also have an acetate cut directly from the master tape using a $30k 300B vacuum tube amplifier - easily the version of vinyl I've ever heard.
Today's true, 24-bit/192/384khz digital files gets REALLY close to the studio master tape
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.
FYI...
CD is 16-bit
MP3 is 8-bit with information/detail chopped off vs CD
When albums are mastered/remastered and "noise reduction" is used, information/detail is ALWAYS chopped off.
When The Beatles catalogue was remastered by Giles Martin, "noise reduction processing" was used on only 5% ...and certainly one reason why the project received applause for the sound quality enhancement vs the original.
More recently, Giles' re-mixing/re-mastering of Pepper, White, AbbeyRoad in 24-bit/96Khz digital downloads sound even more amazing - esp when played thru a quality "computer transport" and DAC.
Decades ago, I bought a back-to-back cassette (dual) tape deck to do some recording. I had an extensive album collection I wanted to record to cassettes. Never did much with the deck. Now, pretty much most of my music is on a micro-sd the size of my thumbnail. Can’t wait to get Bill Gates chip implanted in my head so I can move all of my music to the chip.
You won't be happy with the new Blue Screen of Death when it happens in your head.
Ya know, the 1980s had the cassette and we have email.
Better to call it the tape audio cassette - magnetic tape for sound recording as such was invented in 1928 by one Fritz Pfleumer.
Try listening to Dire Straights "So Far Away From Me" on the Brothers in Arms CD. Then copy it as an mp3 - the difference is striking. Brothers in Arms was one of the first to be recorded in direct digital aimed at a CD release.
The best sound is remastered albums of your favorite music on CD's. Some just clean up the sound, while some change the sound level of certain instruments. I have many cd's of the Stones and the best is the Grrr remaster. It's double CD's has most every hit and is amazing in a good sound system or headphones. There are many remastered CD's.
That's what I used. Also cassette was a huge improvement over the noise and weak dynamic range of 8-track. Yes, they could jam in a cheap player, but if patient, usually you could get the tape out of the mechanism and just finger rewind.
CD's are the ticket with their .wav files, which recording studios still use along with AIFF. Both are lossless files unlike mp3 that compresses the original recording. Most people can't tell the difference between a .wav file and an mp3 file because they use small playback mechanisms that only play mp3. I can still hear the difference. That's why I still go to my CD's for serious listening in my cave. Plus, I have an amazing surround system with tower Definitive and Mirage speakers.
Yeah, I'm all that and a bag of chips :)
He's wrong. Unless you have new vinyl record with a top line turntable and pickup, maybe. However vinyl was prone to clicks and pops over just a few plays. CD's don't do that. I have CD's from the first days back in the 1980's and still sound like new. Of course, the sound of any recording depends on the studio engineer and his final mix. Some great - some not so.
As I said above, remastered albums on CD is the best sound you can get.
I did also. However, if you had a top line home cassete player, they came with Dolby to reduce hiss. You could eliminate most of the hiss, but it would also cut out some of the higher frequencies.
That's why CD was a huge innovation. No hiss, huge dynamic range, no tangling, and pretty much lifelong. I still have 80's CD's that sound the same. Just keep them clean and free of scratches. Of course, the studio production values weren't as good as today. Still, listen to the original un-remastered Brothers in Arms of Dire Straits and you'll be surprised.
vinyl is still the best.
Neil Young said it best.. “live music is better, bumper stickers should be issued”
Exactly! MP3 is the lowest of low quality.
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