I sold all my 8 tracks last year. I had such a nice collection a guy came from another state to buy them as well as all my players and recorders. The problem is they all dry up and get brittle; so you have to keep splicing them and thats very time consuming. I had a guy who would do it for 50c a piece but he disapeared. Thats when I said this is too much work. But don't let anyone tell you they sounded bad; they sounded pretty darned good; better than the early CD's.
Yes - I have found that most of my cassette tapes have deteriorated over time. Either got twisted, or unaligned so they are scraping at the sides, or some other problem.
Wayne Parham Messages: 18795 Registered: January 2001
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Cassette had a lot to overcome - slow tape speed, thin media, etc. It was initially intended as a voice range recorder like might be used for dictation. But by the time compact disks became popular, the highest quality cassette tape media and the decks, transports and electronics were capable of very good quality reproduction. I have many cassette tapes that have extremely high fidelity recordings on them.
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