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Good quality cassettes sound great, as good as CDs. You probably just had a shitty deck and shitty tapes.

That's actually rude to say and I think my deck was ok and tapes were ok. My deck was a single well Sansui and my tapes were new Maxell tapes. Sure I might eek out some more performance with a Nakamichi deck and chrome tapes that cost $14 a blank or something but it's still going to sound like a cassette deck.

https://audiochrome.blogspot.com/2020/12/cassette-tape-measu...

I find some charm in the lo-fi sound, if I wanted hi-fi sound I would just record something digitally for basically free, so I don't see the point of chasing the dragon of ultimate cassette sound quality.

It's not 'rude to say,' it's simply the truth. With good quality metal tapes, and Dolby C, a cassette is going to perform as well as any room you care to listen in. I find most people who complain about cassettes being lo-fi had shit decks.

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