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Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by KozmoNau7 on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @02:49PM (#17501013)
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 (#17501661)
> the one they grew up listening

The biggest market for cassettes today is for people who never experienced them before.