45s were doily disks and the inserts were doily ’dapters. When we tried to get a 78 turntable, the reaction was like we had asked for a cylinder player. We finally found one though.
I was at a school, this little kid was talking non-stop, and I said she’d been vaccinated with a Victrola needle. Please note, above comic is NOT so far fetched…
Some of the cds I bought to replace some of the tape cassettes I’d played for about ten years…have become unusable after a couple of years…and you can’t re-wind, track back, etc…useless cds! what a screwup, with cassette tape you could rewind, find something, record cheaply…AND the sound wasn’t digital, which you can HEAR the crappiness and inaccuracy…ooops…you probably never used cassettes, and you probably CAN’T hear how BAD digital sound is…sorry.
So I dug out the cassettes…all these years, lying in a dusty drawer…they’re FINE.
I’ve started re-recording my cds to cassettes…it’s the only way to make them usable. And to keep them around longer than a couple of years.
Capitalism and the greedy jerkoffs who have got control of it have ruined a lot of very fine methods and formats…planned obselescence (whoops. a Misspelling. Sorry)
Audio cassettes as well as CDs are temperature risky. Also any kind of recording tape should be FF’d and RW’d at least once a year to prevent print thru. I always used blank metal oxide instead of ferric tape which was notorious for print thru. That’s when you can hear the music on the other side interfering with the side you’re listening to.
Any of you remember the special Long-play “45s”? They were made for talking books for the blind, but some music was recorded on them; they played at 16-2/3 RPM.
You all should check out the book, ‘Appetite For Self-Destruction’, about the music industry and the cd, and then digital changes. I grew up with father who was SERIOUS about his music and sound, I was 12 before I found out not everyone had a reel to reel tape machine..
J Short over 12 years ago
It’s a plastic version of a Ninja star.
Dani Rice over 12 years ago
Try to explain to a kid about “clockwise”.
Dex_N_FX over 12 years ago
don’t forget those reel to reel tape players.
hippogriff over 12 years ago
45s were doily disks and the inserts were doily ’dapters. When we tried to get a 78 turntable, the reaction was like we had asked for a cylinder player. We finally found one though.
knitkitty over 12 years ago
I was at a school, this little kid was talking non-stop, and I said she’d been vaccinated with a Victrola needle. Please note, above comic is NOT so far fetched…
tbritt99 over 12 years ago
Remember the record player in a suitcase?
tigre1 over 12 years ago
Some of the cds I bought to replace some of the tape cassettes I’d played for about ten years…have become unusable after a couple of years…and you can’t re-wind, track back, etc…useless cds! what a screwup, with cassette tape you could rewind, find something, record cheaply…AND the sound wasn’t digital, which you can HEAR the crappiness and inaccuracy…ooops…you probably never used cassettes, and you probably CAN’T hear how BAD digital sound is…sorry.
So I dug out the cassettes…all these years, lying in a dusty drawer…they’re FINE.
I’ve started re-recording my cds to cassettes…it’s the only way to make them usable. And to keep them around longer than a couple of years.
Capitalism and the greedy jerkoffs who have got control of it have ruined a lot of very fine methods and formats…planned obselescence (whoops. a Misspelling. Sorry)
Yer Huckleberry over 12 years ago
Let me try that again. The 7 1/4 ips was slow but had the better sound. Sheeesh. Been so long, and I bought into Beta for the same reason.
Yer Huckleberry over 12 years ago
Audio cassettes as well as CDs are temperature risky. Also any kind of recording tape should be FF’d and RW’d at least once a year to prevent print thru. I always used blank metal oxide instead of ferric tape which was notorious for print thru. That’s when you can hear the music on the other side interfering with the side you’re listening to.
craigwestlake over 12 years ago
Any of you remember the special Long-play “45s”? They were made for talking books for the blind, but some music was recorded on them; they played at 16-2/3 RPM.
mechaman over 12 years ago
You all should check out the book, ‘Appetite For Self-Destruction’, about the music industry and the cd, and then digital changes. I grew up with father who was SERIOUS about his music and sound, I was 12 before I found out not everyone had a reel to reel tape machine..