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Originally Posted by Tim Armstrong
A well-recorded cassette tape has much better frequency response and a whole lot more depth than the average fairly low bitrate mp3 file, and the Sony Walkman that I listened to back in 1982 was a pretty good little machine...
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That
might be true the first half-dozen times through a new cassette, but those roses wilt pretty fast as the heads become magnetized, and the cassettes get older and experience drop-out. And that's assuming the cassette was well-recorded to start with.
Of course, a high-end audiophile machine is another story, but then we're not comparing apples to apples anymore.
Dollar for dollar, I think the quality and value of audio is better now than ever before.