TheVillageIdiot
04-04-2012, 05:00
I've become late-blooming cassette fanatic wannabee.
At first, it was nostalgia that made me dabble in cassettes, that was around 2005. Found a bunch of 80's New Wave Synthpop pre-recorded for $1 each brand new still sealed on a lazy Sunday stroll at the old market.
Got myself a cheapo beaten to death cassette deck from pawnshop for a little virtual 'Back to the Future' time, and was pleasantly surprised music from that beaten to death cassette deck was very soothing and comfortable to my ears, which meant I could listen to it for hours unlike the cd, which caused me ear fatigues.
I didn't know whether it was better, but it sure was very comforting to my ears.
So I started digging in research and found out I could buy some of the TOTL cassette decks from 80's for a pocket change. I could never afford them back then, now if I'm patient I could buy them for a song, and about 20% of the time, it even works without further servicing.
I did further research, and found a few brand that is practically ignored by most cassette connosieurs.
I've found one brand of cassette deck, and the TOTL deck from that brand has the BEST sound quality from cassette deck for the genre of the music I enjoy, which is basically 80's synthpop, but then I read reviews from some very prestigious audiophile society declared that particular model as the the BEST sounding cassette deck even for classical music.
I won't tell you what brand that is, the reason is I've become an avid collector of that model, and I don't want any competition driving up the price. Beside that brand has gone bankrupt a long time ago, and one cannot find any supply parts. So far I've collected 9 of that model for parts so that I won't ever have to worry about parts running out.
No, it's not Tandberg, no, it's not Nak, no, it's not Revox, no, it's not B&O.
It was not very common name even when it was in business.
At first, it was nostalgia that made me dabble in cassettes, that was around 2005. Found a bunch of 80's New Wave Synthpop pre-recorded for $1 each brand new still sealed on a lazy Sunday stroll at the old market.
Got myself a cheapo beaten to death cassette deck from pawnshop for a little virtual 'Back to the Future' time, and was pleasantly surprised music from that beaten to death cassette deck was very soothing and comfortable to my ears, which meant I could listen to it for hours unlike the cd, which caused me ear fatigues.
I didn't know whether it was better, but it sure was very comforting to my ears.
So I started digging in research and found out I could buy some of the TOTL cassette decks from 80's for a pocket change. I could never afford them back then, now if I'm patient I could buy them for a song, and about 20% of the time, it even works without further servicing.
I did further research, and found a few brand that is practically ignored by most cassette connosieurs.
I've found one brand of cassette deck, and the TOTL deck from that brand has the BEST sound quality from cassette deck for the genre of the music I enjoy, which is basically 80's synthpop, but then I read reviews from some very prestigious audiophile society declared that particular model as the the BEST sounding cassette deck even for classical music.
I won't tell you what brand that is, the reason is I've become an avid collector of that model, and I don't want any competition driving up the price. Beside that brand has gone bankrupt a long time ago, and one cannot find any supply parts. So far I've collected 9 of that model for parts so that I won't ever have to worry about parts running out.
No, it's not Tandberg, no, it's not Nak, no, it's not Revox, no, it's not B&O.
It was not very common name even when it was in business.