Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases
by KozmoNau7 on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @02:49PM
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No of course not, it would be a waste of money to force cassette tapes into having decent sound quality. Anyone who cares about that is going to be using either lossless files or a good modern lossy codec.
What people want is the shitty version of cassette tape, the one they grew up listening to on their birthday present portable tape players. Probably tapes recorded on a middling-quality player from an LP.
And I get it. If I were to buy a classic car of some sort, you can absolutely bet it would have a tape deck, and I would gladly use it.
Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases
by 21 on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @04:12PM
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> the one they grew up listening
The biggest market for cassettes today is for people who never experienced them before.
Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases
by Roboprog on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @05:39PM
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Well said. E.g. - There’s a lotta love out there for DACs with limited bits (e.g. - 10 bit digital to analog converters in low end 80s synths)
FM8 doesn’t sound quite like a DX100, and all that...
Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases
by nightfly on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @09:26PM
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Not out of cassette tapes maybe, but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KHSz9Gi-II
People using tapes are looking specifically for the imperfections of the medium. Trying to get perfect reproduction out of one would be like selling a synthesizer that only produces the most perfect, clean sine wave. Nobody wants that. The distortion is the instrument.