[geekamongus]

Vinyl resurging, I can understand. But cassette tapes were always so fragile. I can't count how many got twisted up in the player and lost forever.

Their only redeeming quality was the mix tape.

[parineum]

I don't understand vinyl either. Tape is worse but vinyl has all of the same downsides, sonically. The "Warmness" people are always talking about is a symptom of fragility. Unless you're going to get a laser player, your vinyl gets worse with every listen. And if you're using a laser, you loose the garbage that is referred to as "Warm". Nevermind if they get left somewhere warm.

It's objectively worse than lossless digital in every way except coming with a big artwork surface. I'd rather buy a poster.

I'd rather listen to music as close to was intended and for it to stay that way as long as possible.

[lloeki]

> your vinyl gets worse with every listen

Worn out vinyl grooves are typically caused by an unbalanced tonearm or damaged stylus.

Realistically if the tonearm is adequately balanced and the stylus is kept clean you're looking at hundreds to thousands of listens before it has any kind of even slightly discernible effect.

There's a much more likely chance of vinyls being damaged by simply handling them.

[fsckboy]

>Vinyl resurging, I can understand. But cassette tapes...their only redeeming quality was the mix tape

their ONLY redeeming quality? mix or not mix, did you ever try to record a vinyl?

[geekamongus]

Yeah, I used to have a habit of buying a blank cassette with two vinyl albums each weekend after I got paid so I could listen to said albums in my car. I'd still rock the records at home though.

[JKCalhoun]

That and piracy.

You gotta love the cahones of the guy that, in the 1970's, opened a record rental store in a college town… and sold blank cassettes as well.

[2000UltraDeluxe]

But what a quality that was!