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Vinyl record mass production in "current" modern days ...
Gyro:
The Compact Cassette one, I really don't get. I saw a guy eagerly rifling though a shelf full in a second hand shop the other day!
The home recordings I did on TDK-SA used to be pretty good but the pre-recorder ferrite tape releases were always rubbish.
AndyBeez:
--- Quote from: Gyro on December 24, 2022, 10:07:48 am ---The Compact Cassette one, I really don't get. I saw a guy eagerly rifling though a shelf full in a second hand shop the other day!
The home recordings I did on TDK-SA used to be pretty good but the pre-recorder ferrite tape releases were always rubbish.
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The compact cassette thing is a vibe I'm not feeling either. Tape (unless reel-2-reel) was always a consumable format, used mostly for pause pushing. If I wanted to actually pay the record companies, I'd buy a CD - because those were a zillion times better than crappy vinyl. I only ever used chrome tapes in my Kenwood deck, as they sounded good with DolbyB and were very affordable in packs of ten. All ferric tapes were good for was, turning the pinch wheel brown and making into mix tapes for mates - who I knew would screw up the tape in their rubbish car radio-cassette player, which back in the day was an in-car status symbol. I once used a set of metal tapes for recording a mate's band, but really TDK chrome dioxid' was more than adequate. Wind on (or jog on) and have you seen the price of 'new old' tapes on eBay? Me thinks I should bulk erase the big box of tapes as I'm sitting on a small fortune.
On the subject of winding on, one culture shock for new players is the notion of winding stuff on and changing sides. There are no menus, drop downs or voice activations, just your finger on the FF and FW. The fast cueing of tapes is a lost skill.
btw, for any European looking for eco friendly record pressing, check out https://deepgrooves.eu/ecofriendlyvinyl/ in the Netherlands.
MikeK:
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--- Quote from: jonovid on December 23, 2022, 12:11:16 pm ---there is hope corded telephones and paper money make a big comeback
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Corded phones never went away, there are few advantages to having a desk phone be Wifi connected.
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Yeah. I still have a corded phone. Audio quality FAR surpasses a cell call.
--- Quote from: BravoV on December 23, 2022, 03:04:54 pm ---Well personally, I have nothing against that, but please, do NOT bring back film based camera, really ..REALLY hate that era, the curse of maxed out 36 photo shots and other gazillions of inconvenient.
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The thing about film, though, is that you're forced to choose your shots. With unlimited shots available people take photos of everything and they become nearly meaningless. As one comedian said, "I have more pictures of my kids than my father ever LOOKED at me."
--- Quote from: Black Phoenix on December 24, 2022, 03:35:36 am ---There has been an uptrend in the Vinyl, Compact Cassette and the more younger Mini-Disc in the last years.
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I have a Mini-Disc system. I'm surprised it never did well (other than in Japan). It's quite good. Much smaller and better than cassette and not as fragile as CD.
themadhippy:
--- Quote ---I have a Mini-Disc system. I'm surprised it never did well
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It was fairly popular in uk theatre for sound effects playback for a while, mainly due to auto pause/cue,something not common on cd payers at the time,also the media being reusable made it the perfect revox replacement.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: Ice-Tea on December 23, 2022, 11:35:35 am ---A lot of stores around here cary more LPs than CDs. Not so niche...
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No. It is because nobody buys CDs nowadays; people buy albums in digital formats (like MP3 or FLAC). I got rid of my CD player a long time ago.
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