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Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Analog, sure, but very low quality. 1/8" tape is not enough to reproduce sound accurately and there's a lot of tape hiss. There's a reason why professional analog multitrack studios use 1" tape.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago

Ehh, all those 1” tape machines are 8-tracks and designed for editing, not playback. Magnetic tape fidelity has a lot more to do with medium, bias and processing than the width of the tape itself.

Hell, plenty of analog shops use four and eight track machines that run 1/4” tape!

Compact cassette also has the potential to sound very good. If you would like a demonstration, look up the vwestlife yt channel or listen to a good tape on a good tape deck.