NW-Bound
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Some earlier posts talk of cassette tapes. Yes, I still have two functioning stereo cassette decks, and they still worked as of a few years ago when I digitized all of my cassette tape collections to convert them to MP3.
I still have these decks, but do these decks still work or their belts and rubber wheels all dried up? I do not know. But I will admit that I have not listened again to the resultant MP3's, but know where they are stored in my Buffalo NAS.
Here's something curious. I recently discovered that people are still trading open reel-to-reel tape decks, the rigor of the 70s. And they were not going for cheap. We are talking thousands of dollars for a good high-quality deck.
What the heck? How do they get blank tapes for them? And to use them for what? There's no way these old expensive decks, as nice as they are, can match the specs of modern digital high-quality sound recording equipment.
I still have these decks, but do these decks still work or their belts and rubber wheels all dried up? I do not know. But I will admit that I have not listened again to the resultant MP3's, but know where they are stored in my Buffalo NAS.
Here's something curious. I recently discovered that people are still trading open reel-to-reel tape decks, the rigor of the 70s. And they were not going for cheap. We are talking thousands of dollars for a good high-quality deck.
What the heck? How do they get blank tapes for them? And to use them for what? There's no way these old expensive decks, as nice as they are, can match the specs of modern digital high-quality sound recording equipment.