Why cassette tapes are making a comeback

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  • While vinyl controlled the largest share of the physical music market last year, cassette tapes are surging in popularity. The medium saw an increase in sales from 2015 to 2023 of more than 400%. Marc Masters, author of "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape," joined CBS News to discuss the comeback.
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  • @thomasperez5643
    @thomasperez5643 หลายเดือนก่อน +459

    If someone made a mixtape for you, you were def someone important in their life.

    • @anthonywallace3830
      @anthonywallace3830 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      And the feeling of making and then gifting it to that special person 😊

    • @priuss6109
      @priuss6109 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      His or her life...fixed it for you

    • @ANTHONYBOOTH
      @ANTHONYBOOTH หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      if people stole your mix tapes then you could look back and know that you Did know how to mix....

    • @calvinsc5105
      @calvinsc5105 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@priuss6109 🫣

    • @angelinimartini
      @angelinimartini หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ANTHONYBOOTHthat’s funny. Had not thought of that

  • @pistol80
    @pistol80 หลายเดือนก่อน +759

    No younger person now days will understand how serious it was to make a mixtape either for yourself or a loved one. You had to first get a stereo that allowed copying. Then you had to get all the correct tapes from your favorite artist. Next you had to find the start of each song on the tape and manually sync up your recording with the track you wanted. All this literally took hours to accomplish and there was a possibility the tape player could get jammed up and ruin a section in your mix tape. It was all very serious.

    • @ekop1778
      @ekop1778 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      UNIVERISITY MUSIC IN CT 1990S GOOD TIMES TAPES AND RECORDS
      THEN CD CAME ALONG AND THE STORE CLOSED

    • @sci-fi.tsunami
      @sci-fi.tsunami หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      Exactly why I hated cassettes back in the 80s. The invention of the CD was the greatest thing. Being able to skip to the beginning of each song in seconds was Heaven/Bliss.

    • @roberteng3567
      @roberteng3567 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      The extra work made the mixtape more special and personal. If there were flaws, that also made it more personal.

    • @lincoln3x7
      @lincoln3x7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@roberteng3567 getting together with friends to copy and share music, borrowing an album so you could tape it... that was fun

    • @4catsnow
      @4catsnow หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Tape to tape?? yuck....

  • @quesadilla79
    @quesadilla79 หลายเดือนก่อน +286

    no ads on my MP3's, cds and mini disks

    • @JohnnyTyrone77
      @JohnnyTyrone77 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Mini discs are the best!

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I wish my damn DVDs didn't have unskippable ads.

    • @balsalmalberto8086
      @balsalmalberto8086 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Also your tracks can't be retroactively removed by licensor unlike digital.

    • @coreym162
      @coreym162 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@balsalmalberto8086 That's why get a ton of hard drives. Cassettes and VHS sucks. The way they degraded and were too clunky and difficult to copy for family and friends. I'm not too young or old to forget the nightmare.

    • @urbanknish
      @urbanknish หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You have to have a really great budget for minidiscs these days but I agree - they are amazing. Much more interesting and fun than mp3s or steaming IMO. But I'll take my music any way I can get it. I bought the first MZ-1 when it first came out and later collected discs and machines. Down the rabbit hole we go! ;)

  • @Dutch2go
    @Dutch2go หลายเดือนก่อน +293

    I travelled the world with a Walkman and a bunch of cassettes in my backpack back in the 80’s. Those were the days.

    • @saix81
      @saix81 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Bunch of batteries too, I guess 😅

    • @jeyfomson6364
      @jeyfomson6364 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Good times.

  • @davidsonowski414
    @davidsonowski414 หลายเดือนก่อน +390

    Cassettes were a dream because when I was growing up that is what you recorded on from the radio when a song came on

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Nowadays the radio is not worth listening to..... I hate all the morning talk shows, commercials galore - even with the same commercial twice in the same break, news with commercials between every subject and never getting my request played. Nope. Spotify rules.

    • @KtotheG
      @KtotheG หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 The music is all programmed now because the stations are no longer independently owned. They are owned by Clear Channel, Sony and BMG. So the so-called DJs are not DJs anymore. They are "on-air personalities." They exist just to talk fluff. This started in 1997. Before that time, you could still call up a radio station and request songs to be played. The best were the quiet storm segments at night where they would air the people calling up to dedicate certain songs to their lovers, ex-lovers and crushes. Those were the days before radio became the corporate oligarchy.

    • @garytaylor8344
      @garytaylor8344 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      So long the DJ doesn't talk before the song fades,or you hear the station's jingle before the next song being played.

    • @tonymontana897
      @tonymontana897 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Haha yeah. That was the first cassette tape I ever recorded was songs off the radio. That was way back in 1980 lol. I still have that very tape and all the other tapes I did thereafter.
      I have a nice collection of rare N.O.S cassette tapes too. Teac, Sony etc..
      Typically we'd buy the record album, then record it to tape and that we the record stayed in mint condition. if the tape got wrecked, then you'd simply record another.
      I never bought Store bought tapes because they were almost always recorded poorly on bad quality tapes.
      It was a wonderful Era nonetheless.

    • @kaypz
      @kaypz หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I can relate to you guys… the DJ keep talking at the song intro right

  • @Wizardof
    @Wizardof หลายเดือนก่อน +390

    You buy it, IT IS YOURS until it breaks unlike SONY/Streaming/NETFLIX locking you out of your 1990s car stereo!

    • @beanbon666
      @beanbon666 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      and spotify. they stopped some songs

    • @Metsfan7232
      @Metsfan7232 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I bought a handful of songs (not a big music person) before 2010 from iTunes and Amazon. All still available for me to stream or download on iPhone (while at least don’t see Apple or Amazon going out of business anytime soon)

    • @skorpiogrl
      @skorpiogrl หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Exactly!

    • @sixplicit2977
      @sixplicit2977 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      So much better than having to find space to store everything. Cassette Tapes are also one of the worst more recent formats music came on when it comes to quality and tapes degrade even if you take care of them. This is a trend that doesn’t make much sense.

    • @PrimericanIdol
      @PrimericanIdol หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@sixplicit2977 There's a reason it was vinyl that made a comeback, and not the cassette, nor the 8 Track.

  • @Gudi102
    @Gudi102 หลายเดือนก่อน +197

    I still have all my tapes AND play them on Sunday mornings, usually. Love the sound and the nostalgia to play it on an 80's stereo that works perfectly.

    • @80s_Boombox_Collector
      @80s_Boombox_Collector หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Facts

    • @jaredharris1970
      @jaredharris1970 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I still have my CD cassette stereo on my dresser collecting dust I don’t even know if it still can play cassettes with the advent of digital music all my music is on my phone and I just connect my Bluetooth speaker so my stereo is just sitting there unplugged I still have cassettes i just can’t seem to toss the stereo out I’m sure the drive belts for the cassette player has long since degraded because they are rubber I hope cassettes do come back so I can dust old girl off and bring her back to life and if companies are willing to make stereo cassette players that can improve sound quality of my older tapes I would buy a new stereo system lol

    • @gregoryhart1388
      @gregoryhart1388 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I have all of mine also and they go back 60 years and all still work. oops I am giving away how old I am

    • @HardCold-Alquan
      @HardCold-Alquan 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The only nostalgia that I have for any tech, is the Minidisc, which I still have and I bought a high-end deck off of Ebay years ago. Even the Minidisc is not inconvenient and it was way more convenient that a cassette. This cassette thing must be an attempt at a fad. Some tech, must stay buried!

    • @ShazeemKhan
      @ShazeemKhan วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@HardCold-Alquanalso can't come near MD reliability 😊

  • @bababoy91
    @bababoy91 หลายเดือนก่อน +225

    The reason is you own it, and it’s yours not like the subscription and cloud nonsense companies want so they can make more money.

    • @sci-fi.tsunami
      @sci-fi.tsunami หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      I own all my digital MP3s saved on my hard drive. I have never used a subscription or cloud.

    • @abc33155
      @abc33155 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      They don’t make more money, they make way less nowadays. Subscriptions per month are cheaper than buying just one CD or cassette album.

    • @RaggedyHobo
      @RaggedyHobo หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@abc33155They are but you don’t really own them. You just rent them. I still do it so I’m not trying to put it down but I also keep my favorites on mp3 so I’ll have them.

    • @RaggedyHobo
      @RaggedyHobo หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sci-fi.tsunamiI do both but it is good to keep the favorites because with streaming you pretty much just rent them while you’re subscribed.

    • @swray2112
      @swray2112 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I get the argument, never streamed a song in my life other than watching classic videos on TH-cam, but why the subpar audio quality and lack of durability of cassettes when CDs exist? Unfathomable to me, who lived through the poor media quality of the late 70s to 80s.

  • @melanie7781
    @melanie7781 หลายเดือนก่อน +243

    I'm personally drawing the line on 8 tracks coming back😂

    • @SgtJoeSmith
      @SgtJoeSmith หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Cassettes predate 8 tracks actually. Now reel to reel is where it's at!

    • @DavidMander-rs4uk
      @DavidMander-rs4uk หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      8 track sucks!! Muffled mess 🗑️👎

    • @bobd9868
      @bobd9868 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Sorry, sticking with my CD’s.

    • @RoyPage1970
      @RoyPage1970 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Bull 💩​@@SgtJoeSmith

    • @RoyPage1970
      @RoyPage1970 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@bobd9868yeah and you probably support Trump also CDs are trash the worst

  • @Royale_with_Cheeese
    @Royale_with_Cheeese หลายเดือนก่อน +183

    Will this increase the sales of pencils too?

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      knife blades, nail files, pinky fingers, writing pens and even a tightly rolled up napkin all can do the trick..........

    • @jimcabana9309
      @jimcabana9309 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      The old clear Bic pen was the perfect fit.

    • @grant9301
      @grant9301 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@jimcabana9309 Exactly! you always had to take up that slack in the tape! or do a total rewind by spinning it around in the air!

    • @DivineLightPaladin
      @DivineLightPaladin หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I used a pinky finger which is free so IDK but quality comment 😂

    • @JamesBarometer-jv9kk
      @JamesBarometer-jv9kk หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      👍

  • @audioartisan
    @audioartisan หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    My Sony Walkman Cassette player from the late 80's still works.

    • @irtnyc
      @irtnyc 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The good Sony walkmen (?) are shockingly expensive still. If you can find a new in packaging cassette tape or CD discman, they're miles better than 99% of the junk made in China today.

  • @alexsandra6316
    @alexsandra6316 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

    Back in the days when I worked at Circuit City, I remember the cassette phased out during the early 2000 . Cassettes are the least expensive devices to produce and replicate. They are also the most popular devices to use for EVP recording. They still work today , better than digital recordings.

    • @abc33155
      @abc33155 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      For those wondering like me what the hell you are talking about: “Within ghost hunting and parapsychology, electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are sounds found on electronic recordings that are interpreted as spirit voices. Parapsychologist Konstantīns Raudive, who popularized the idea in the 1970s, described EVP as typically brief, usually the length of a word or short phrase.”

    • @chestyvulva
      @chestyvulva หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      EVP Recording 😂

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@GladeSwope That's what happens when things go obsolete. Obsolescence is a scam.

    • @bobm9509
      @bobm9509 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      No, they aren't better than digital.

    • @user-oh6ev7mj5q
      @user-oh6ev7mj5q 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@bobm9509 they are more practical and dont need internet.

  • @ericvannielsen
    @ericvannielsen หลายเดือนก่อน +130

    I run a cassette duplication rig for a merch shop and can vouch for these being the go-to for independent musicians; our orders keep increasing

    • @christiniyoutubesux
      @christiniyoutubesux หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      My car only takes cassette tapes (Saturn 99). What shop is it and do you guys do online orders?

    • @ericvannielsen
      @ericvannielsen หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@christiniyoutubesuxyour handle is apt - I tried to reply with a link and the wonderful people at Google censored it 🤐. We do take them online. Google Do-It Now T shirts in Philly

    • @BogoEN
      @BogoEN หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@christiniyoutubesux They do - search for Do It Now T Shirts in Philly

    • @BogoEN
      @BogoEN หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@christiniyoutubesux They do - Do It Now T Shirts in Philly

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So you pirate music....... hee hee. Movie reference.

  • @PJSkinnerAuthor
    @PJSkinnerAuthor หลายเดือนก่อน +153

    I still have a walkman and all my tapes. I also have a cassette deck which plays cds. My generation don't throw stuff away just because something new comes along.

    • @PJSkinnerAuthor
      @PJSkinnerAuthor หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@lexluthor9509 Quite sure. Beware the Squander Bug was drilled into me as a child. OCD is not the same as being thrifty. They're not organised by artist or anything. 🙂

    • @phoenixr6811
      @phoenixr6811 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Still got mine too 🤣 no OCD hear, what people fail to understand is that not artists went to CD or Streaming media

    • @PJSkinnerAuthor
      @PJSkinnerAuthor หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@lexluthor9509 You are incorrect. I do not blame my behaviour on syndromes. You do you. I like to use stuff until it breaks.

    • @PJSkinnerAuthor
      @PJSkinnerAuthor หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@phoenixr6811 I love my tapes. I can't afford to replace them all with other media.

    • @ScrewyDriverTheMan
      @ScrewyDriverTheMan หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Most of my tapes wore out. So did all of my machines, they all died. Had to buy CDs. And then I went through about a dozen portable CD players too LOL, and I thought Napster and MP3 were a god send, being able to play and carry an iPod with all my songs LMAO

  • @areasevenpro
    @areasevenpro หลายเดือนก่อน +105

    You can buy brand-new cassette players and recorders in Japan.

    • @jokerjosh3
      @jokerjosh3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I'm going to Japan!!!

    • @RobCamp-rmc_0
      @RobCamp-rmc_0 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You can here too (e.g., Fiio, We Are Rewind). Problem is, they all use the same mechanism, so they are all pretty much the same and not all that great. But they are fine starting points for kids who want to get into it, so I’m not gonna hate.

    • @joshwilkesbooth
      @joshwilkesbooth หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You can still purchase brand new "professional" TASCAM decks in North America.

    • @kirkmooneyham
      @kirkmooneyham หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@RobCamp-rmc_0, yes, those use the ONLY real cassette mechanism still produced, which is a knockoff of an old Tanashin mechanism. It can never be great, but it can be made decent with good playback heads and electronic circuits, plus they are pretty reliable.

    • @jmi5969
      @jmi5969 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@joshwilkesbooth 30 years ago these would sit firmly in the bottom row... Do we still have the luxury of buying and using low-rent tape transports while there are still plenty of top-of-the-line decks on the market? sure, bringing them back to "like new" specs is pricey but IMO worthwhile.

  • @strictly45s6
    @strictly45s6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    There are no ads on tapes!! And the audio quality last longer.

  • @Mrshoujo
    @Mrshoujo หลายเดือนก่อน +97

    Let's hope QUALITY stereo cassette recorders start being made again along with decks with DOLBY NR & metal tape bias. Chrome tapes were sooo good.

    • @80s_Boombox_Collector
      @80s_Boombox_Collector หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I agree, I still buy NOS chromies from the 90s. But as for truly high-quality decks, I'm afraid nobody's going to commit to make those anymore.

    • @joycejones5796
      @joycejones5796 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      FACTS...the tdk chrome/ metal tapes. Good sound bass be pumping

    • @OriginalOldSkoolFunk
      @OriginalOldSkoolFunk หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I used to buy TDK SA90's by the boat load back in the late 70"s and 80's. I liked Maxells also and I'd buy Fugi tapes on a budget.

    • @practicalguy973
      @practicalguy973 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I still have my Technics SU-V6X set up with some book shelf speakers, it sounds great with CD's. Would be awesome to add a quality double cassette deck back in to my hifi system.

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      All you young-uns can go ahead and have fun wit'ch "new" toys. I've been there, done that and own the shirt. The shirt has worn out ages ago, however but I am not goin' back.

  • @computerboy2k
    @computerboy2k หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    My old $300 Walkman (with equalizer, TV audio, dual sided playback) broke years ago, and I was able to buy it on eBay for $35 including shipping. Once I got a $3 replacement drive from Norway, I was able to listen to all my old college tapes…brought me back to younger days….

  • @TheSublimePotter
    @TheSublimePotter หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    My 11 yo son is obsessed with cassettes, 8 tracks and vhs camcorders. He’s actually de-digitized some of his media to cassettes and vhs 😂. I wondered if I was witnessing the beginning of a trend where gen z&a begin to migrate back to analog technology and blend digital and analog tech in novel ways in the future

    • @DaraGaming42
      @DaraGaming42 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Ive herd of 12 year olds now, getting into retro gaming too so, you never know

    • @BlooditeDrakan
      @BlooditeDrakan 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Your son already sounds amazing. Be proud!

  • @flynnstone3580
    @flynnstone3580 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    That's how our band in the 70s learned how to play songs before TH-cam. We'd keep rewinding the tape till we got every note right.

    • @paulsawtell3991
      @paulsawtell3991 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Easier to learn to read music...

    • @flynnstone3580
      @flynnstone3580 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@paulsawtell3991 I was taught at 12 to read music and play guitar. The problem was that they didn't make sheet music or have song books for bands like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath back then.

  • @sjr100
    @sjr100 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    Back in the 80's, making a mixtape was a Saturday night if you had nothing else to do. Sunday morning,"hey, what did you do last night?", me"stayed at home, made a great mixtape for the gym". Everyone knew what that meant.

  • @abuhassan9321
    @abuhassan9321 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    Still got my Walkman

    • @PJSkinnerAuthor
      @PJSkinnerAuthor หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Me too 😁

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Did you just get it or have you had it for awhile?

    • @franfinesim
      @franfinesim หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I remember that I used my dad's walkman in 2000. as a little girl. It was so cool. I miss those times

    • @urbanknish
      @urbanknish หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      #walkmanforever

  • @hifijohn
    @hifijohn หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I still have a sealed TDK tape, maybe some day I will use it.

  • @ruckbarbie
    @ruckbarbie หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This will make my dad happy. He has every cassette, laser disc, and dvd he's ever bought.

  • @jmason61
    @jmason61 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    My daily driving Tacoma from 2002 has a great sounding tape deck & I have like 100 cassettes that I like...

    • @Shoppersshopping
      @Shoppersshopping หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My 2004 Toyota Sienna has cassette tape player AND CD player…

    • @Brutus_Kennedy_Rutherford_III
      @Brutus_Kennedy_Rutherford_III หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I listen to tapes all the time in my '99 Miata. They take up less space than CDs in a car where space is very limited, and they sound just fine, plus they're cheap enough where I don't have to worry about what happens to them.

    • @scottbarker9058
      @scottbarker9058 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      buy an amer. small truck!!!!

  • @williammurray1341
    @williammurray1341 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

    Like vinyl, it's a warmer sound and no one will change the lyrics.

    • @brainstem2023
      @brainstem2023 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I've heard the warmer sound argument. I have friends that swear by their tube guitar amplifiers. My ears can't tell the difference; even when I was young I couldn't.

    • @ScrewyDriverTheMan
      @ScrewyDriverTheMan หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      If you mean garbled and wobbly, then yeah LOL

    • @80s_Boombox_Collector
      @80s_Boombox_Collector หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@ScrewyDriverTheMan You mean because the tapes were stored in a 120 degree car interior, or in a humid garage, for 40+ years. And played on a poor-quality deck that hasn't been maintained. Not a fair argument at all.

    • @ScrewyDriverTheMan
      @ScrewyDriverTheMan หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      No. The tapes were analog. They were never going to be able to replicate digital. Especially the EDM type music I was into already, like Jean-Michel Jarre. I switched to CDs and the difference was amazing

    • @80s_Boombox_Collector
      @80s_Boombox_Collector หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@ScrewyDriverTheMan Of course tapes are analog, but that's not what you meant when you said "garbled and wobbly". Those words imply tapes & equipment that was either low-quality to begin with, or hadn't been maintained properly.

  • @postmodernrecycler
    @postmodernrecycler หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I kept the box of tapes I had from the '80s. I knew they would eventually come back. Our third car has a casette stereo, so I still get to listen to them📼

  • @702jutsu
    @702jutsu 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I love seeing tapes rolling from the beginning to the end of it there's something it's like a message of how the music starts and ends with joy I'm your heart as you listen to the music

  • @bluemantom77
    @bluemantom77 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Never died for me have most of mine from the 80's &. 90's. I am 47

    • @SlavTiger
      @SlavTiger หลายเดือนก่อน

      Only thing that tends to go bad are rubber belts and sometimes capacitors. Remember that.

    • @bluemantom77
      @bluemantom77 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@SlavTiger I agree with that I rebuilt a Onkyo ta 2017 a few years ago and it works like a champ

    • @SlavTiger
      @SlavTiger หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bluemantom77 need more people with that fix it first throw it later mindset these days. They dont make it like they used to. Ive met people who's minds were blown that even simple things can be fixed. Think it's a cultural problem.

    • @bluemantom77
      @bluemantom77 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@SlavTiger exactly we're losing more people that can do things like that I got lucky growing up and I was told how to do a certain things

    • @SlavTiger
      @SlavTiger หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bluemantom77 always can try to teach others

  • @GladeSwope
    @GladeSwope หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    The music industry was once terribly afraid, *_Home_* *_Taping_* *_Is_* *_Killing_* *_Music!_* Instead, it launched the *_cassette_* *_culture_* phenomenon. Many bands that are now super-famous would never have started without it.

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Do I remember that or do I remember that? I remember the skull-bones but with the cassette being the skull. I an article remember citing that the one who tape music a lot also had a large record collection. I can vouch for that. I have over a thousand records during the 80s. Even in high School I had quite a few 12" and 45rpm records that I made my "mix-tapes" with. I couldn't play records in my Walkman. I could have bought a portable, battery-operated record player but imagine me walking down the street with a bag loaded with vinyl records and my portable player. Oh how cumbersome. Trying lugging a bunch of groceries home with a portable record player and a bunch of records.
      Cassette tapes were the last hold-out. They remained though the 1990s and into the 2000's before they would soon disappear. I haven't the space for physical media and so it's reserved for a very few items.... and playing my music on my phone beats lugging a bunch of cassettes and/or CDs around.

    • @africkinamerican
      @africkinamerican หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@GladeSwope most people have no idea how good recordings on a Tascam 4/8-track (for example) can sound in the hands of a meticulous recordist.

    • @roachtoasties
      @roachtoasties หลายเดือนก่อน

      And the same with VHS and Betamax. The movie and TV industry wanted to even have a tax on blank video tapes to reimburse them for "losses."

  • @SethTaylor
    @SethTaylor หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    I know it's only 3%, but my bet for the future is on digital downloads. I'm sensing people are becoming uneasy with not owning anything. But at the same time, they don't want the inconvenience of physical.
    Personally, as something of a musician myself, I am considering a situation where I release only a portion of my music on streaming platforms and limit the rest to buy-to-own only, in both digital and physical format. I want to reward the people who make a direct contribution to my income the way they deserve and also, well...
    I refuse to have streaming platforms cash in on work that I invest literally thousands of dollars into while I get paid spare change.

    • @Ted_James
      @Ted_James หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The future is definitely about streaming, even more so than downloads. A lot of people I know, even people in their 50s and older who always had physical product available, have dumped all of their hard copy and moved to streaming, mostly out of convenience. In the '90s, my band made vinyl. Many people said, "I'd buy it if it was on CD." Nowadays, "I don't have a CD player. Is it on Spotify?" I'm with you on everything you've said. However, I will definitely continue to release my music on hard copy (vinyl, CD) as well as digital. Go for everything that pays. Digital is like passive income. Yep, Spotify and others like it suck because we make pennies (more like % of pennies) on the dollar.

    • @foxyr4bbit
      @foxyr4bbit 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Ted_James i think there may be a generational gap. i think a lot of young ppl like me are starting to get tired of streaming, at least people who enjoy active listening. sure streaming is convenient, but there's something about a physical analog item like a cassette. it's hard to rewind / fast forward / skip, you have to be intentional. additionally tape saturation just gives a really nice sound, imo. i'm someone who grew up during the era of cds so i don't even actually have nostalgia for cassettes, but i love the physicality of magnetic tape, and also the cheapness of them. it's kinda like democratized ownership of music. there's also something about cds that makes them not as interesting as cassettes, probably bc the media is digitized and perfect- cassettes feel like a living thing.
      i make music as well, and make cassettes. spotify is for convenience, but cassettes are love.

  • @josesoto8809
    @josesoto8809 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I'm still buying them.

  • @sammym.belfastchild
    @sammym.belfastchild หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    All that's old is New again.... glad I held onto my tapes for when I was a teen.. love it...

  • @ShamandJuju90
    @ShamandJuju90 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I still have a bunch of cassettes from the 80's and they sound great! Best decade ever!

  • @ZoomZoom-ng6sn
    @ZoomZoom-ng6sn หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    My 1997 Lexus ES300 has a tape player.

    • @hondaphan4172
      @hondaphan4172 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      So does my '05 Honda Pilot....came with a CD player AND a cassette deck which my wife and I thought was odd when we bought it.

    • @ZoomZoom-ng6sn
      @ZoomZoom-ng6sn 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@hondaphan4172 As late as '05? Wow.

  • @skullandbones1832
    @skullandbones1832 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Having the Alpine 7618 pull out cassette deck while in high school in 1994 was good times.

  • @LaCheleWallace
    @LaCheleWallace หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Ah, the cassette tape. They meant the entire world to me. Thankfully, I've saved a lot of them over the years for sentimental reasons. The thrill of going to K-Mart, Tower Records, Sam Goody, etcetera and just browsing the cassette tape section...whew! My grandfather buying me Jodeci's _Come & Talk to Me_ or Hi-Five's _Unconditional Love_ are memories that I'll cherish for the rest of my life. I miss sitting in my room and just staring at the artwork for Janet Jackson's _janet._ or carrying Mary J. Blige's _What the 411?_ in my lil' purple fanny pack. Cassette singles were my favorites because I could buy an unlimited amount of them. As the mid '90s emerged, I started buying cassettes, CDs, imports and maxi-singles. My dad couldn't quite understand why I needed Nasir's _Illmatic_ on cassette and CD. Finding European import singles w/ b-sides and rare remixes was the best. Erykah Badu and Mariah Carey had the best imports. Oooh, I need to find my lil' Sony walkman again. See, for me, it's not just music. It's life. I can go on and on for days about this so Imma just leave it here.

  • @samidan91
    @samidan91 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    I still got about 300 cassettes LO.L

    • @slayeroftrolls1200
      @slayeroftrolls1200 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂

    • @nkotbsouth
      @nkotbsouth หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Me too! 📻😁

    • @joelnehl
      @joelnehl หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I just digitalized all my tapes, I have to find a place that will recycled them

    • @porkchopps
      @porkchopps หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      About 1,200 myself

    • @EvangelismforGod
      @EvangelismforGod หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I personally have about 1500 lol

  • @NicBam
    @NicBam หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Funny, I started to sell cassettes on tour in 2015... and everyone was amazed... all the artists I met in each city said they wanted to do it. Looks like they did.

  • @erocker78
    @erocker78 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    The biggest draw back to cassette tapes aside from sound quality was waiting to fast foward or rewind to your desired song.

    • @MrQ12elve
      @MrQ12elve หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      i had this hifi system, which nobody believes, the cassette actually has a track skip, repeat everything a cd player does...but it does it in a crude way, say you want to repeat a song, you hit the repeat button, what it does is, after the song is completed it stops and rewinds it back to the start of the track and plays, without knowing the technical side of things my guess is it can detect a blank spot between each song and rewind/fastforward to the next blank spot, works the same way as skipping tracks forward and backward

    • @biglew1161
      @biglew1161 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@MrQ12elve I had an Alpine cassette deck in one of my vehicles in the 90's that did this, I'm pretty sure your right about detecting the blank between tracks.

    • @kirkmooneyham
      @kirkmooneyham หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@MrQ12elve, yes, that feature was called things like "music search" or "track search". I have a Pioneer deck from the late 90s that will do that pretty well.

    • @homemark22
      @homemark22 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No it's not like that, it can prevent you to urge to skip the album that is why I love that than stream mp3 or even cds

    • @erocker78
      @erocker78 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I had tape players that did that, but you still had to wait.

  • @DavidCase-ov5uo
    @DavidCase-ov5uo หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    One thing with audio and video cassettes you should do. Wind to the end then rewind every so often. It helps to prevent magnetic print through from one layer to the layers either side. On audio tapes you would hear an echo. It also improves the tension… less need for pencils!

    • @paulsawtell3991
      @paulsawtell3991 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Broadcasters and studios would store their reel to reel tapes tail-out for that reason.

  • @kaiserped
    @kaiserped หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I still have my Van Halen's 5150 album in cassette tape bought in 1986. It's nostalgic to see this news.

    • @jennrat2982
      @jennrat2982 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Love it! That was the album of the summer...😎👍🎸

  • @sclogse1
    @sclogse1 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I still have my four track cassette/mixer recorder. You put a metal sticker on the back of the cassette that told the recorder it was now four tracks. I still have pages of those stickers. This thing is a looker, too. The Yamaha MT44D/RM602 Multitrack cassette recorder and mixer with RB35B patch panel

  • @hotjanuary
    @hotjanuary หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I’ll never go back to tapes. They aren’t long lasting and you can’t skip tracks. Duplicating one takes forever. I burned all my audio media to data disks as backup and have it all stored on a hard drive. My mp3 player works just fine and is super compact. No streaming service can say no to my mp3 player. It’s got no internet connection.

    • @matthewstorm5188
      @matthewstorm5188 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      The only people who think cassettes are great are young hipsters who didn’t have the experience of growing up with them. They don’t remember the experience of your cassette player eating your tape or seeing the resulting hundreds of feet of tape fluttering in the wind tangled in the shrubs growing in freeway medians. But those of us who grew up with cassettes remember all too well how terrible they were.

    • @krhawkins91
      @krhawkins91 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@matthewstorm5188cassettes are outdated I remember as a kid in the 80's how terrible the quality of sound goes using it constantly.

  • @elsongs
    @elsongs หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    If you buy an old cassette deck from a thrift store, you need to remember a few things -- It's a mechanical device that needs a lot of maintenance. Not only do you need to clean the heads, but you should get the heads demagnetized to ensure the best audio quality. You can buy a demagnetizer or take it to an electronics repair shop to have them do it. Also, the motors need to be in good shape, and the rubber belt that drives the spools will degrade over time and break. There aren't too many companies around making cassette deck motors, and replacement parts may be very hard to find.

    • @iunderstanphotography2780
      @iunderstanphotography2780 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ".. take it to an electronics repair shop .."
      These damn near do not exist. No one repairs electronics anymore, the ypush for you to buy new stuff. There used to be 3 where I live

    • @africkinamerican
      @africkinamerican หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes, dirty heads can even degrade the quality of a clean tape.

    • @paulsawtell3991
      @paulsawtell3991 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Open reel to reel was far superior; if you want analogue go for that.

    • @MAC5REPORT
      @MAC5REPORT 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You can take it to Radio Shack.......oh, wait

  • @theodoreolson8529
    @theodoreolson8529 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    I guess I should keep my old TEAC tape deck.

    • @urbanknish
      @urbanknish หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "from my cold dead hands!"

  • @DerrickRuthless
    @DerrickRuthless หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I buy and listen to cassettes all the time. It's a less expensive format and you can still support the band. I dig!

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I bought some old cassettes in the later 2000s because the music was not available on CDs or iTunes and I had a cassette deck and a CD-r burner so I would burn them and put the music on my iPod.

    • @narrator-timothymckean
      @narrator-timothymckean 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Is tape less expensive than a cd to produce?

  • @jegarajramoo3873
    @jegarajramoo3873 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The compact cassette format that Philips introduced in 1963 is the technology that truly brought recorded music to the masses. Sturdy, portable and cheap, it really was revolutionary. Its popularity really exploded around 1980 with the introduction of the Sony Walkman. My first ever compact cassette album that I purchased was ZENYATTA MONDATTA by The Police in 1980 !

    • @DaraGaming42
      @DaraGaming42 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Its hard to imagine it came out in 1963 and didn’t catch on till the 80s

  • @TIGERZY2K
    @TIGERZY2K หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Cassettes making a comeback in the age of TH-cam is quite unexpected.Yet it feels good to be in the nostalgic mode.

  • @joelfrombethlehem
    @joelfrombethlehem หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    A real cassette "revival" for me would be manufacturers making Hi-bias blank tapes (type II and IV) and higher quality recording and playback decks and of course, the pre-recorded tapes with type II & type IV tape stock compatible to CD and vinyl quality sound.

    • @ericvannielsen
      @ericvannielsen หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      NAC in Missouri is making cobalt-based type II’s, though they’re arguably not as hifi as the older formulas (which can no longer be made due to environmental restrictions). Hopefully they continue to improve the formula for the new ones.

    • @80s_Boombox_Collector
      @80s_Boombox_Collector หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@ericvannielsen Personally I just buy NOS chromes from the late 80s and early 90s

    • @BubbaBigDude
      @BubbaBigDude หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They're already making Type II but not up to the quality of new old stock tapes! Forget new Type IV metal tapes, very likely not going to happen due to environmental restrictions on the materials used!!!

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Perhaps DATs should make a comeback, although they never really were for commercial use like cassettes but the sound quality would be like high-quality cassettes and CDs and they were much smaller than cassettes and the player could be about the size of an iPod.

    • @jmi5969
      @jmi5969 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Last-generation old-stock type IIs like Maxell UDII are still much cheaper than any new products (and far superior). Easy choice.

  • @hotdrumchick
    @hotdrumchick หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤❤❤ the idea!!! I still have a box of about 200 of them in my closet AND a cassette player. Guess I’ll have to pull them out!

  • @DavidCase-ov5uo
    @DavidCase-ov5uo หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Tapes and vinyl are analogue media. They capture ALL of the audio levels from low level to high. I always feel I am missing something on cds as the levels are digitally coded to the nearest binary number. (Quantised) so some information is lost in the gaps. You can watch a analogue tv pic through the “snow” but a digital pic just falls into pixel blocks

  • @trancemutator5393
    @trancemutator5393 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Reminding me of the days of the mixed tape.

    • @CEOkiller
      @CEOkiller หลายเดือนก่อน

      Got your tape, and it changed my mind….

  • @brainstem2023
    @brainstem2023 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    It's not just big stars that benefit. Garage bands playing in small venues can easily make tapes. With the proliferation of software available for mixing, all they need is a laptop and a tape recorder and they can make a couple dozen tapes at home to give away or sell to their fans. I know, give away? What a concept!

  • @delcorick9967
    @delcorick9967 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just like anyone else I also listened to tons of cassettes and had alot of them but when cd's came out it was just alittle better than cassettes for me but when the smart phone came out and using mp3 downloads, now that's a game changer I much appreciate!! The cassettes and cd's can remain history for me but to be able to download music is priceless

  • @tomodonovan5931
    @tomodonovan5931 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I still have all my tapes from the 80s, live concerts and a few albums.
    They still sound good. Gave all my albums away because they were
    a burden to move. Cassettes were far smaller, and manageable.
    Some live concerts with AC/DC, Jefferson Starship, Led Zepplin,
    Stones, Motley Crue, and I mean early first album stuff. The Cars,
    UFO, Tom Petty, Queen, The Alarm, Steve Miller Band, Van Halen,
    Heart, Santana, Pretenders, Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam, Ted Nugent,
    Styx, Manferd Mann, The Police, Foreigner, Sting, Aerosmith, Lindsey
    Buckingham, Peter Frampton, Rush, Night Ranger, Ozzy Osbourne,
    The Who, ZZ Top, Sammy Hagar Scorpions, Boston, Guns & Roses,
    Journey, Bon Jovi, Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, Eric Clapton,
    Fleetwood Mac, U2, Judas Priest, REO Speedwagon, Dire Straits,
    Devo, Survivor, Eddie Money, Don Henley, Pat Benatar, Todd Rundgren,
    Pink Floyd, Robert Plant, Steve Winwood, Asia, Kick Axe. Right there
    are thousands of dollars someone will spend searching online for these
    rare concerts. Most tapes were good quality, and not the made in Mexico
    brands that had the music fade away after time.

  • @SynthAir
    @SynthAir หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I'm a Millennial on the youngest end of the spectrum. While cassettes were commonplace when I was born, digital music would come to be the standard during my childhood as well. Initially this meant music downloads, but I eventually moved to streaming as it seems most people have. I had a large library of digital music on my PC but began to question whether I should keep it when everything is available for streaming. I changed my tune (no pun intended) not long ago, after experiencing a number of digital items disappearing from online platforms including Spotify, TH-cam, and even video games that I had purchased a digital copy of. I realize now that these "on demand" services are a convenience but not a replacement for a collection. So I decided not only to increase the size of my digital library, but to also start collecting physical media, buying CDs and vinyl from my favourite artists--I haven't purchased any tapes, only because I prefer CDs for the fidelity or vinyl for the album art. I have a fairly large shelf that is full and will continue to grow--while I will acquire digital copies of most of the music I like, I will be sure to acquire physical copies as well for my absolute favourites. Additionally, I purchase physical copies of video games whenever possible now both to avoid a game being bound to a certain account, that game eventually not being downloadable anymore, and because you can eventually sell the game or even just give it to someone else to enjoy which can't be done with digital.

    • @kyliepallo
      @kyliepallo หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I just said this ! I was born in 94 so I’m 3 years off from a zoomer and now I always thought I was a proper millennial but it seems with a lot of experiences im leaning more elder zoomer these days. I saw cassettes but never really used one irl. By the time I entered kindergarten in 2000, cds reigned supreme. If vhs is bought back I’d totally be on board for that!

  • @thewizard230
    @thewizard230 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Using cassette tapes with the right recorder, with mic meters & decent wired attached microphones. The sound is AMAZING!

    • @cameravisionnyc
      @cameravisionnyc หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes it is...in the late 1970's I put on cassette tape so many of my LP's somehow they sounded better to me taped
      rather then just played on the turntable . Miss my old Sony TC5M

    • @paulsawtell3991
      @paulsawtell3991 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      yeah, love all that tape hiss!

    • @thewizard230
      @thewizard230 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The hiss your hearing is probably in your ears, I would see a doctor for that issue.
      A well taped cassette deck with top-notch microphones by passing machines mics and the use of mic meters . I've made high-quality cassette tapes for 40 years, no hiss, but if I heard hiss, I would seek a doctor.

  • @Kevin-kr5ok
    @Kevin-kr5ok หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I have 2 boxes full and I bought a dual cassette player at the pawn shop like new ! The majority of the cassettes play well but some from the heat and storage

  • @garylee9738
    @garylee9738 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Goodwill usually has a few unused cassette tapes laying around in the miscellaneous bins.

  • @conradzimmerman8638
    @conradzimmerman8638 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I'd say its simply all about the novelty and the nostalgia... Personally I'm into the humble CD...
    From the 2021 THE GUARDIAN Article on Lou Ottens, inventor of the Cassette Tape. "Ottens had little patience with the renewed popularity of the cassette tape - or even vinyl.
    “Nothing can match the sound of the CD, it is absolutely noise and rumble-free. That never worked with tape … I have made a lot of record players and I know that the distortion with vinyl is much higher. I think people mainly hear what they want to hear.” ...

    • @gemanscombe4985
      @gemanscombe4985 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tapes are just fine for driving. The CD's advantages are lost once the car's engine, tires and wind kick in. For serious sit-down listening, Ottens is correct. While cleaning house or doing dishes, not so much. Singing along and playing drums on the steering wheel? We know that answer!

  • @brainstem2023
    @brainstem2023 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The glue that adheres the iron oxide to the tape transfers to the rollers. It's inevitable that, even with cleaning, eventually all cassette tapes will fail. Even if it doesn't get demolished by the player, the material will flake off and you'll have a tape that has snap, crackle and pop included. Also, the tape will stretch. Another problem is reverse side bleed over.

    • @coreym162
      @coreym162 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you! Someone that remembers. They were a catastrophe. I don't miss them and they're a waste of resources too. Never turning back from my trusty MP3s and digital video. I would have killed to have an MP3 player and a Smartphone in High School. These kids have no clue how good their tech is.

    • @paulsawtell3991
      @paulsawtell3991 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      A crap format for sure but pop music appeals to many whose ears are not finely tuned anyway

  • @Tk-ou9ec
    @Tk-ou9ec หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I even had the cassette player restored in my old Chrysler so I could rock on while cruising

  • @Wheelgauge-bt7ox
    @Wheelgauge-bt7ox หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Good I can play new ones in my 80s classic car👍

  • @micraw714
    @micraw714 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Tapes have that warm lofi sound that we love.

    • @middleman9183
      @middleman9183 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They do! 👍

  • @TR41N_OF_THOU9HT
    @TR41N_OF_THOU9HT หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Now we're talking... Im glad the 80s still have a big influence on certain things

    • @DaraGaming42
      @DaraGaming42 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Seems 80s nostalgia will never die

  • @fffw2355
    @fffw2355 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I still have all my cassette collections with Sansui amps & Aiwa double deck casette players, still works

  • @jolyonwelsh9834
    @jolyonwelsh9834 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I like cassettes because on some machines you can play them backwards.

  • @abc123fhdi
    @abc123fhdi หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I have a Denon cassette deck from the early 2000's barely used, double deck. Should be good quality compared to whatever you can get now that isn't used. Maybe I'll keep it as I'm currently using it as a TV stand.

  • @dogwu2099
    @dogwu2099 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Still have my RunDMC and Slim Shady LP on cassettes ❤

  • @alexblue6991
    @alexblue6991 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm so old I can remember when I recorded the top 10 from the radio

  • @divinecomedy0
    @divinecomedy0 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I love my cassettes. I taped off the radio some wonderful music. The only two problems are 1) they outlive the tape deck you play them on and 2) the players devour the tape. 😁

  • @stephenmorton8017
    @stephenmorton8017 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    you can look for all my old cassettes in the dump. i couldn't give them away.

  • @oneisnone7350
    @oneisnone7350 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I buy all my music digitally, and have it backed up several ways. I recorded all of my vinyl that I couldn’t find digitally decades ago. Buying a cassette is stupid.

  • @nni4nni
    @nni4nni หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    If you keep your tape deck maintained, you shouldn't have any issues with your cassettes, unless they are not stored properly. The cost of new releases should not be the same price or more than the price cd's. That's the only problem I have.

  • @c-power8393
    @c-power8393 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Definitely miss the cassette tape era.

  • @vulcan2882
    @vulcan2882 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    My parents ( well my mother now ) have hundreds of cassette tapes. Growing up we listined to them, some sounded better than CDs of of today. My mom still has her 1985 Boom Box ( as she calls it ).

    • @mattdonna9677
      @mattdonna9677 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Also referred to as ghetto blaster.

    • @vulcan2882
      @vulcan2882 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mattdonna9677 ... I think so.

  • @sparky6592
    @sparky6592 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I still have my 500+ CD collection and over 17,000 handpicked songs physically on my phone and on my PC. I'm never going back to listening to music on cassette tapes. Hells no.

  • @johnm3946
    @johnm3946 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Tapes are tough and can take a beating. I'll find myself listening to the full album of an artist because
    I'm too lazy to pop it out.

  • @noose-ix7in
    @noose-ix7in หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Sound Quality can be really good if you have quality gear. Try a TDK Metal Tape or TDK AR-X, you will be surprised!

    • @paulsawtell3991
      @paulsawtell3991 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hiss hiss hiss with all of them. The tape is too thin and runs at such a slow speed.

  • @jamesm.3967
    @jamesm.3967 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Well I still have some blank cassettes in the wrapping. Let’s roll. 😮😂

  • @kingofallmediums2123
    @kingofallmediums2123 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My favorite physical mediums in order of preference:
    1. 33 and 1/3 vinyl
    2. Reel to Reel
    3. Compact Disc
    4. Cassettes
    5. Vinyl 45
    6. 8 track tapes

    • @DavidCase-ov5uo
      @DavidCase-ov5uo หลายเดือนก่อน

      Vinyl is like the Rosetta Stone. The contents last forever.

    • @MAC5REPORT
      @MAC5REPORT 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@DavidCase-ov5uo Yep....and if you have a good turntable with great speakers vinyl can't be beat!

  • @ROCKNROLLFAN
    @ROCKNROLLFAN หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's really cool to have cassette tapes especially with fun colors that you can actually put into your pocket or a backpack to listen to with a tape recorder on hand at your own convenience.

  • @juanestadian8471
    @juanestadian8471 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I totally agree with Vinyl making a comeback..............it truly sounds amazing and this is from a person who grew up with CDs and mp3s. but cassettes didn't sound good and had electro-mechanical parts that would fail eventually. My dad had the Best of Sting and The Police on cassette and when that failed, i cried.

  • @jake105
    @jake105 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Cassettes are awesome! Cassette tapes overtook vinyl records in 1984, making up almost 53% of all album products shipped to trade that year, up 30.1% from the previous year. Cassettes remained the dominant format in the United States and the UK until 1992, when CDs took over.

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      In the USA, cassettes made it into the early 2000s. I bought mainly cassettes in the early to mid 1990s.

  • @JudgeCrater22
    @JudgeCrater22 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Marc Masters called it right, tape cassettes have crappy audio quality. Dolby B and C tape noise reduction encoding was a sham. 12cm polycarbonate music CDs were the best audio recording media by far and can also play on computers with optical drives. And you own the music.

  • @user-td4ys2pv7p
    @user-td4ys2pv7p หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's even more convenient if your tape deck has auto-reverse.

  • @monaural2.988
    @monaural2.988 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I use blank tape to capture what I want off the internet. It’s as simple as having my headphone Jack plugged into the back of the tape deck. And as for tape jamming, quality, etc.? You need to get informed as to the decks and tape brands that are great, and those that are garbage. Lastly, everyone needs to realize; vinyl, tape, CD, or online and internet…nothing is “indestructible”.

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor หลายเดือนก่อน

      You record from the internet to tape? How and why? Very cool btw.

    • @monaural2.988
      @monaural2.988 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ColtraneTaylor Simple. A lot of people are finally sharing a wealth of rarities on a multitude of outlets online, and if you can’t get the material to transfer to CD, just capture the audio in real time. With the odds against a good chunk of this stuff being seen at your local Walmart, I won’t be wasting time waiting. Roll Tape!

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@monaural2.988 Isn't it easier to capture it on your pc and store it as mp3s or burn it to cd?

    • @DaraGaming42
      @DaraGaming42 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same, i connect one cable to the iPad and the other end to the tape recorder, make a half hour playlist and then press record on the tape recorder and play the Spotify playlist u created and let it record for half hour and its done, mix tape made
      Obviously use Add free Spotify or youtube

    • @monaural2.988
      @monaural2.988 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DaraGaming42 And even with the free version with ads? No different from stopping the tape when there are commercials on the radio. Except with the internet, editing is easier and cleaner than it was taping the radio stations. It’s all nothing new!

  • @zeenohaquo7970
    @zeenohaquo7970 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Nostalgia of my teens and twenties.

  • @sergei-6316
    @sergei-6316 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I have 3 Cassette decks ranging in age from the late 70s to the mid 90s and over a hundred cassettes, some of which date back to the late 60s and I absolutely enjoy them even today.

  • @user-td4ys2pv7p
    @user-td4ys2pv7p หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's even more convenient if your tape deck has auto-reverse

  • @drwisdom1
    @drwisdom1 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I got my first car in 1973 and immediately installed a cassette player (they only had radios back then). But I never bought a pre-recorded cassette. I would buy the LP and record cassettes for my car. Because of that I still have 30 feet of LPs in excellent condition. Since cassettes last less than a decade, if I had bought cassettes I would have lost all my music.

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A friend of mine bought a new truck that didn't even have a radio in it. That was in the late 80s. Pre-recorded cassettes were crap until the 1990s. The ones I remember never had all the linear notes that records had. They only had the insert with the picture showing the artist and album title, the spine with the album title and artist and the song titles on the back fold. The reverse of the insert was blank. No producer credits, no lyrics, nothing. In the 90s, that is when the insert became a multi-panel foldout, clear cases so there can be artwork in the back as well. The cassettes were even in better quality and some were in high-bias as my portable player had high-bias settings. This is why I bought mostly cassettes in the 1990s.

  • @derek-64
    @derek-64 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The thing? It's called a cassette player.

  • @brittscott4673
    @brittscott4673 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When cassettes we're phased out around 2000s I thought the sound quality was just as good as a CD .
    CDs became the favored listening format over cassettes.
    It would be cool if they came out with a new and improved cassette.

    • @paulsawtell3991
      @paulsawtell3991 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      If you thought that, your ears are fooling you.

    • @Albee213
      @Albee213 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@paulsawtell3991 If you had a good deck you could make tapes that sounded nearly as good as a CD, technically speaking they don't but to a listener they wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I am not defending tapes return, it's pointless and should be left in the ash bin of history, but at the end the technology for cassettes was pretty good.

  • @countryclub1113
    @countryclub1113 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This week I borrowed my mother's cassette player to go through some old tapes that I recorded music on back in the early 90s. Two days into it, I can barely stand using the cassette player and going through the tapes lol! It felt so strange to me, like I was using ancient technology. The clanking of the clunky buttons to play, rewind, fast-forward, and stop the tapes, the poor sound quality, then having to try and find the song I was looking for. Then, flipping the cassette over and doing more of the same... ugh... I'm so glad we've moved on from this medium haha. I can understand that Gen-Z finds them interesting and wants to experience them though, but I don't think they will catch on with the general public again. Let's move on. 😂

  • @curtchase3730
    @curtchase3730 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I don't get it one bit. Must be something new and exciting for the young kids now? I'm pushing 70 now, been through the whole gamut. Every pre-recorded cassette I bought was terrible. Tape head alignment was #1, then no noise reduction at all (that requires a license from Dolby Labs), then poor high end. Blaa. What happened to having 10 thousand songs on a tiny little thumb drive? Back in the 70's, I wished for something like that but not even close to what we actually got! Before I tossed out my cassettes, I recorded them into my computer as wave files.

    • @curtchase3730
      @curtchase3730 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@AlphaTrion92 LOL, ya your young still! Since my hearing aint what it used to be, I'll deal with compressed digital music any day over hissy cassettes.

  • @TheRealDixiana
    @TheRealDixiana หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I'm 22 years old I'd been making my own cassettes for quite sometime id started in 2013 recorded off the radio and i also do studio mastering with type IV METAL and man them things sounds amazing
    But dont get me wrong a type 1 can also sound good i usually go for the TDK D 90 OR the sony hf and the TDK AR-X
    Also the maxell UR
    The deck i have is a KENWOOD KX-97CW id recently changed the belts and its holding up quite well

    • @80s_Boombox_Collector
      @80s_Boombox_Collector หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Agreed, it's so easy to score a box of NOS chromies or even metals for a good price

  • @IamME-h5w
    @IamME-h5w 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Being able to record your own music from LP's was huge. I still make my own music tapes, except now it's not on tape. It's on a thumb drive, and plugs right into my car stereo.

  • @xenexaentertainment631
    @xenexaentertainment631 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Analog is special and it will definitely make a comeback, the souvenir factor for cassette is simply unmatched by any digital format like streaming or on computer. The natural vibe value is simply incomparable.

  • @delaneyalusa
    @delaneyalusa หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I still have about 400 cassettes with no way to play them

    • @SnarkyRC
      @SnarkyRC หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Come by. You can use my cassette deck.

    • @spursdynasty7378
      @spursdynasty7378 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sell them for a grand !

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pawn shops................

    • @DaraGaming42
      @DaraGaming42 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Amazon sell loads of Tape players and Walkmans, so no real excuse for not owning a Tape player unless money is an issue (no offense)