Really? I’ve heard the opposite: that modern cassette players are garbage because they all reuse the same Chinese mechanism with mono playback and no Dolby noise reduction.
If you want a good cassette player, you’re supposed to buy one from the 80s or 90s, preferably a Sony.
Yeah that’s exactly the problem with modern cassette players, they’re almost a waste of money. And the tape that is still produced today is quite terrible compared the old tape, so you also have to find old tape as well
The modern hobbyist resurgence is in vinyl, not cassette. I was only mentioning cassette to make the point that the same phenomenon occurs in other media too - of technologies getting worse over time. Especially true in cassette, in fact.
Really? I’ve heard the opposite: that modern cassette players are garbage because they all reuse the same Chinese mechanism with mono playback and no Dolby noise reduction.
If you want a good cassette player, you’re supposed to buy one from the 80s or 90s, preferably a Sony.
Yeah that’s exactly the problem with modern cassette players, they’re almost a waste of money. And the tape that is still produced today is quite terrible compared the old tape, so you also have to find old tape as well
Well yes that’s true.
The modern hobbyist resurgence is in vinyl, not cassette. I was only mentioning cassette to make the point that the same phenomenon occurs in other media too - of technologies getting worse over time. Especially true in cassette, in fact.
Good cassettes players are old ones.