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Would you still buy a tape deck? Pioneer will sell you one

Would you still buy a tape deck? Pioneer will sell you one

When was the last time you played a cassette tape? I mean, the compact consumer version, not some digital master tape. Chances are it was the early- to mid-90s. The best thing about the cassette tape for a long time was the fact that it was so easy to record your own audio onto it. In fact, we still talk about the “mix tape” even though now you can burn it to a CD or DVD or simply store it digitally in iTunes or stream it from Spotify. Looking back, though, that was about all that was good about the tape (if you’re feeling nostalgic, take a look at some Read more »

Analog reminiscences

Analog reminiscences

I’ve been hit by audio nostalgia this past week. I took out my big crate of cassette tapes (that maybe carries about 300 tapes), and plugged in an old Pioneer tape deck to my home theater/audio setup at home and went back in time. The simple act of opening a cassette case, taking out a tape, plopping it into the deck, manually pushing the deck in and pressing play is so old-school but it brings back so many memories. I remember the first tape I bought (a used copy of The Police’s Synchronicity) played on a very small and dinky bright red (it was the 80s!) Sanyo radio/tape recorder with Read more »