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    Posted: January 27 2006 at 05:49

Here we go folks ... a really simple poll.

We are talking about the best possible tape (cassette) system vs. a standard CD player.



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CD I reckon! And tape is really on the way out now...
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Too much hiss on tape, they break often and wear out, not to mention magnetic neutralisation if you don't play them for a while
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Originally posted by limeyrob limeyrob wrote:

Too much hiss on tape, they break often and wear out, not to mention magnetic neutralisation if you don't play them for a while

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CD of course.
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CD is my answer too although

I LOVE TAPES, I can still listen to them

in particular, some metallic ones or cromium had excellent sound!!!
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CD,of course!!
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I think the best possible tape system would sound better than any CD, since tapes are analogue (as vinyl).

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Originally posted by MrHiccup MrHiccup wrote:

I think the best possible tape system would sound better than any CD, since tapes are analogue (as vinyl).

Of course it would still have to be a real, existing system for standard cassettes - there are some really expensive ones.
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Originally posted by MrHiccup MrHiccup wrote:


I think the best possible tape system would sound better than any CD, since tapes are analogue (as vinyl).


Only true in a literal sense. Cassettes are made of lots of particles which can be aligned in one direction or the other in exactly the same way that CDs are made of lots of bits that can be defined as either one state or the other. The only differences are
a)CD does this more efficiently and so requires fewer bits to represent the same information

b)there are more particles per second of music on tape than there are bits on a CD

c)the other noises on cassettes which don't exist on CD are so much louder than this that they render it inaudible.

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