Cassette better than CD

back in the day I rarely if ever bought a prerecorded Cassette..I always made needle-drops of my albums on high quality cassettes...I enjoyed the tape more than the album I made them from...

 

I think RCA Music Club invented brickwalling! I had an RCA Club mastered cassette of Billy Idol-Rebel Yell...It was mastered at a steady +5! LOL!

 

If you recorded it from vinyl on a good chrome or metal cassette on a good deck, such as a Nakamichi, it probably would sound better than a CD.

 

The Heartbreakers' "L.A.M.F."!

 

Talk about your blanket statements. None of this is true in my case. None of it.

Ed

 

I had 100s of cassettes in the 80s until CDs came out. If you think a cassette sounds better than CD I have to strongly disagree with the original poster.

 

CDs have yet to deliver the kind of sound quality that I was producing in my car from cassette tapes in the 80s. I was recording them from a Tandberg 3014 and a B&O 9000 off of my high dollar vinyl rig and playing those tapes on a Concord car deck. Analog all the way... and how sweet it was. Properly alligned cassette tapes could easily deliver flat frequency response from 10 Hz to 20,000 Hz. It was a pain to get the proper azimuth between devices, but the rewards were great!

 

K7... out of curiosity still have a couple of them, Joshua Tree and Back In Black.

The CD is better.

 

Did you bother to read? Nakamichi RX505 ... serviced. Look it up. Not everyone using the cheap crap you love. Once again many replies are from people who never actually experienced the format on anything other than the worst bargain/crap gear. Which is a shame but please don't pretend to know anything until you actually gain real life experience with proper kit.

 

eerrrr yes ... you just dont have any experience with good tape gear.

 

What in the hell am I reading? I can see certain situations where its possible a specific cassette could sound so good that it rivals maybe even surpasses a CD that is absolutely HORRIBLE, but all cassettes better than CD? Come on.

 

If you fill out your profile, we can see what tape gear and CD player you are using.

 

You forget the smiley...I know you have to be joking

 

I have some that aren't.

 

I would love to hear some more cassette success stories.

 

I can't agree with the premise of this discussion, but on the other hand I think that all the disrespect paid to cassettes is equally equine feces......

 

Funny, I remember the noise reduction used on pre-recorded cassettes. Garbage medium to boot.

 

The Digital Compact Cassette might've been good?

 

I had about a thousand back in the 80s. I can understand the nostalgia about making a mix tape. The Sq was bad, japanese deck or not. The art was equally insignificant.
A mix tape for a new girl. I think I found a topic.

 

I've still got the Pioneer CT-939mkII I bought new, and it's a very sweet sounding device still. Especially with Sony Metal-ES which are most of the tapes I still got (in the 100s I think). However, when considering that those tapes cost something like $10-$15 for a C-90, it's not very good sound quality/price ratio. The 939 wasn't very cheap either, but got the same dual capstan as the elite (ct-91), and sounded virtually the same.
I actually had the CT-91 at first, but I needed the recording controls with both bias and level to get Dolby C to work as intended, without artifacts, something the ct-91 lacked. It also has Dolby HX professional which made a huge difference in sound quality when it was introduced (wasn't it a B&O invention originally?).

I used to have a very expensive sony cassette player in the car, with Infinity kappa 16x9 speakers, and that combination sounded extraordinarily good with the metal-ES.

So, yes, cassettes can sound very good if you pay enough, just like vinyl, but for most people digital is superior in every way.

 

Music copied from high-quality vinyl and recorded on a premium metal cassette would definitely sound better than CD.

 

It's what I got and I disagree. Actually, this thread is pretty hilarious. My brother used to have a Technics omega-loop open reel (the extremely expensive one, can't remember the name), and with that I agree it can sound better than a CD, as I witnessed first hand. No cassette I've ever heard, including the most expensive Nakamichi, sound better than CD, and if it does it's just the source that was superior, not anything inherent to the format. Different, yes, better, no.

 

That's wonderful for you but it never came flimsier than cassette tape. While housed in a plastic shell, the tape itself is incredibly thin

What CD player do you use that sounds worse than your Nak? I ask out of curiosity, not snark.

Ed

 

For the most part, I did. I don't think I've ever had more than a few dozen cassettes at any time. Just had to toss the soundtrack to Caddyshack, when side two started dragging.