Yes they sound goregous!! I nerd a new player as my tray doesnt sit right so most dont play well..... The last one I just got is MOODY BLUES - Caught Live +5 (I also have the 2 records)
Cassettes sounded better and were more compact and you could fast forward through them. Naturally 8 tracks become obsolete sooner.
I remember my dad had a few lying around when I was a kid, but ultimately they were before my time. I'm of the cassette tape and CD generation, and all I can say is thank god for online streaming.
I just watched a Rick Beato interview with Rick Wakeman, keyboardist for the prog rock group Yes. He deplores online streaming of music as it stifles the music industry. He got his start in rock by hanging out at a record store.
Yeah, I can't begin to understand what it does to the industry, but it is great for fans. I no longer have to listen to music that was picked and curated for me by a radio DJ. I used to be one of those "all-modern-music-sucks" people until I abandoned radio for streaming. Not only do I pay for streaming, but when I discover a new band, I'll go to their show and buy the merch and support them.
Some bright spark in purchasing ordered about 200 players for our theatres. A few weeks later, he called and asked me whether we were having an problems. I assured him that we had not had a single problem, but I forgot to mention that it was only because I had binned them all. I still laugh at the thought if using them instead of 35mm perforated tape running at 90 feet per minute.
Have Streaming Services Ruined Music 1. ...artists will earn $1.50 per subscriber and $0.0015 per play on streaming services; the worst rates in in the history of digital streaming, 2. ...streaming services have created a new, very rigid blueprint for a single which will earn money.....a song has to be played for at least 30 seconds, leading to many songs becoming far too predictable in putting all of their effort into creating a good first half. 3. ...with streaming, a single which charts or gets radio play may be the only song listeners ever hear from an album as they can simply select the one single and ignore the rest....In the past when listeners used to buy the physical albums they were far more likely to expand their taste as a result as they were forced to listen to a full album to get to the one song they bought the album for. Artists now are taking less creative risks as they now earn money per individual song rather than on albums as a creative entity. 4. ...the algorithms on streaming services, in reality, hinder rather than help listeners expand their musical interests. Rather than broadening our tastes as listeners, streaming services have done completely the opposite, encouraging us to stay within our comfort zones and listen to similar sounding music all the time. 5. ...some artists go to great lengths to ensure they are heard on Spotify playlists, even by creating a style so similar to a famous band that they will certainly be on that band’s ‘radio’ playlists. The Spotify ‘radio’ playlists also lead to music sounding more and more similar as all artists create the same sounds for a chance to chart and be grouped with similar successful artists.
