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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Really? I've heard the opposite: that modern cassette players are garbage because they all reuse the same Chinese mechanism with mono playback and no Dolby noise reduction.

If you want a good cassette player, you're supposed to buy one from the 80s or 90s, preferably a Sony.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Well yes that's true.

The modern hobbyist resurgence is in vinyl, not cassette. I was only mentioning cassette to make the point that the same phenomenon occurs in other media too - of technologies getting worse over time. Especially true in cassette, in fact.

Good cassettes players are old ones.

[–] AwakenedAce@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that's exactly the problem with modern cassette players, they're almost a waste of money. And the tape that is still produced today is quite terrible compared the old tape, so you also have to find old tape as well