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Here's a conspiracy theory for you. Industry saw the success of vinyl and are seeding articles like this in a bid to create another niche sector for flogging crap from the past with a misinformation campaign about the benefits.

Cassette decks are cool looking, but as someone who used tapes for years I can definitively tell you that cassettes, for lack of a better term, sucked. I couldn't switch to CDs fast enough when they came out.

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It has to be. It’s like trying to dig up VHS. Just nothing, even nostalgia to gain here. Vinyl has a distinct appeal. Tape just does not.

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Cassettes are TERRIBLE!

Yeah this and the subculture that is nostalgic for VHS I will never understand.

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Next up will be the return of the 8-Track and articles spewing about how great they were. I can see it now - "If your one of those that have long appreciated cassettes but dont like the hassle of flipping them over at the end of each side, have we got a solution for you"

PS - Yes I am aware that there were auto reverse decks and others, like the Nakamichi Dragon that flipped the casettes automatically - Just speaking about the bare bones ones.

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Of all the physical media... Why the cassette. It has by far the worst sound.

It has the worst fidelity, but I think some people dig the sound.

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This will not be vinyl 2.0. It’s hipster 2.0. Cassettes sucked the first go round

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I guess I’m the only user of r/audiophile that likes cassettes.

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not really a comeback, just kids wanting some of that cool they've seen in a tv series.

Yeah I think it’s a bit of a hipster thing : look how cool and different I am.

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I hadn't played my tapes for years, but when I recently did I was pleasantly surprised how my XL-IIS mix tapes, recorded from CD in the 1990s, sounded soft and warm and not too mushy.

Beta coming back too.

My record store guy can't give them away. Said there is little to no demand, and even when ppl buy they only pay like 50 cents for a tape.

What, 5 were sold last year instead of 2? Cassettes are doggy doo doo and always have been.

As someone who has heard his first albums on tape i can confidently say that I don't miss them at all

Are basic run-of-the-mill cassette tapes better quality than steaming on Spotify or flacs?

Not unless you enjoy tape hiss, reduced clarity and generational degradation.

Absolutely not. Even high end casette is blown away by your average 128kbps mp3 that someone ripped to Napster in 1999.

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