had boxes of tapes- Those you posted look familiar- would sit around all day taping off the radio just to get some ‘cool tapes’ lol
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 :)