Are Music Lovers Bored Of Vinyl And Moving On To Cassette Tapes?

Before the world switched to phones and iPods, the most portable way to listen to music was with a cassette tape - and now they could be making a comeback! Sales nearly doubled in 2021 from 173,000 to 343,000, with 215,000 already sold in 2022 so far.
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#Music #Vinyl #Cassettes

[@Teodor-Bastani-Records]

I love and collect CDs, cassettes and vinyl too, none of them will ever get old to me.

[@rwj777]

I totally agree 💯

[@mars-ox9mh]

They are all gooooddd

[@SuperMarioBrosIII]

@katholland4009 Ditto for me!🤗📼🎧🙏

[@kforkrish]

Since the vinyl prices are skyrocketing and CDs are almost sounds like streaming content. Is the very reason why the already affordable and also compact, cassette sales increasing in popularity, and also keeping alive our love of nostalgic feelings towards them.

[@NotYoung3592]

My whole life is recorded on cassette tape.... even got one that is now 52 years old, still plays!

[@9852323]

I collect cds and cassettes and record my own. Don’t care for records too much and would rather use cassettes. Honestly can’t tell much of a quality difference between Spotify and cassettes. I wish they’d come back full force like records did..

[@JerrySpann-fn4kw]

Why? So the music industry can price gouge tapes like they did record. Just bring back CDs.

[@unknown_norie]

Yes. Cassette tapes and cassette tape mtrs rock. Bring it all back..

[@rwj777]

I still own over 100 cassette tapes and 8 track tapes including compact disc and minidisk. Don't get me wrong, I love the convenience of streaming and downloading, but there's something special about physical formats that's so organic when it comes to listening to music. 🤗❤️

[@dobermanguy9437]

I totally agree with you Ray

[@dobermanguy9437]

If you have a good stereo system and a quality cassette deck that's operating properly cassette decks sound fabulous

[@Ricecooker64]

I have a 1977 Quadraflex PCD 388 and with a nicely recorded tape it's awesome! It's probably one of the higher end decks that were sold at pacific stereo back in the late 70's. Nowadays it's hard to find a proper new deck that weights 12 pounds! Also and actual metal all around construction.

[@9852323]

My Sony boombox from 2020 makes really good recordings onto cassette from Spotify. I listen to them on my Walkman and in the car. Can’t tell much of a difference. As long as you have something decent I think it’s fine. It isn’t necessary to have a high end stereo system or cassette deck to get decent quality sound and performance.

[@JustinGone]

They can sound fine.

[@axelfiedel3793]

​@@9852323I only have a Magnavox Walkman from around 1991 and some of my tapes sound fine. In fact they're even louder when I turn Dolby noise reduction off.

[@UrOpinionsSucc]

Cassettes sound amazing..people are just too lazy to get the most out of them..i own chrome and metal tapes. (Formulations.) And they both sound just as good as a CD if not better with the Wide Dynamic Range.

[@rickg8015]

Yeah, Chrome and Metal tapes, and bias them just right when recording..

[@tuckertastictk]

The problem was that most people back in the day didn't own a high end deck. They used normal bias tapes in a boombox, and got mediocre results.

[@deedeemaclnnis1024]

Oh, yes definitely. I think it people who either, didn’t cassette types with cassette tapes. Or don’t like them as they want, everything easy for them.

[@josiah641]

I just hope sony sees this and remakes one good walkman, ive been fixing older models because they are still better than what's out now

[@jerrywcarman1483]

I like to make cassettes from CDs. When I made them from vinyl, the music search wouldn't work because of the noise. It stood out like a sore thumb. That's probably why I go for CDs. That's besides the wider dynamic range and the 44.1 whatever.

[@9852323]

I make cassettes from Spotify and the audio quality is really good.

[@robertronning7016]

Cassette tapes are about 10 cents a piece at rummage sales you can score a big there they were up to like 15 to $17 and the sound quality is excellent only problem is you have to be able to listen to a whole side then flip it over

[@UrOpinionsSucc]

Not unless you have Auto-Reverse.

[@9852323]

Flipping it over isn’t much of a big deal though and some players have auto-reverse

[@kforkrish]

And such kind of practicality of it makes you keep attached to the medium itself.

[@deedeemaclnnis1024]

Cassette tapes were the best technology, that were ever made and invented. As it just it doesn’t jump or skip, when you walk or jog or run. Unlike cds players and types I think it scratch or damage easily, unlike cds or vinyls as types doesn’t need too much protection. Unlike cds or vinyls does. 😊

[@davidreitzel762]

Love ❤️ all old forms of physical products, digital is just Not the same ill be 43 in November grew up with cassettes.

[@NerdyRed23]

I love cassette tapes too but I'll never get bored of vinyl I'll continue to collect all formats I love the physical feel when I hear music 🎶

[@migchielfaber49]

i recently got a reel to reel always wanted one as a kid when had one from my grandpa it so freaking cool

[@Badassvidsz]

Oh i'm still using cassettes actually right now i'm listening Spyro-Gyra from a Maxell 90 in my vintage Aiwa AD-F660 cassette deck

[@JerrySpann-fn4kw]

I want my daddy's records.

[@Aaron-MackHartford]

Because cassette types is more easy to look after, compare to vinyl records as vinyl have to be careful. Not to scratch it, just like compact disc.

[@BryanDrew]

Wrong Carson, 8 Tracks are considered lowest quality plus most 8 tracks would interrupt at least 1 song for about 30 seconds. How did we ever accept breaking a 4 minute song into 2 parts?

[@stvlu733]

Most players where crap so it made the format run like crap. The early AKAI players made them sound the best and still do like the 82D.

[@BryanDrew]

@@stvlu733 do those players switch tracks fast enough you don't have songs that are interrupted?

[@stvlu733]

@@BryanDrew Yes they do. It's like half a second and a dropout of sound. Some are faster and you won't even notice it. Most just record over the track switch.

[@Tom-vg5nb]

Not bored still collecting

[@davidwilliammusic]

Cassettes are the sound of the 80s to me. Many songs I grew up with are etched in my mind with that particular tape sound. Listen to a song on the internet or CD and then listen to the same song on cassette. They have a 'sound', more presence, more intimate and atmospheric and yet more punchy somehow too. I'd love to release my stuff on cassette some day.

[@Jordan-fn5rj]

cds are literally more accessible and have wayy higher quality and wayy better and more reliable then some stupid vintage cassette tape!

[@davidwilliammusic]

@@Jordan-fn5rj And yet they still don't have the magic sound of cassettes!

[@SuperMarioBrosIII]

@@davidwilliammusic True and it's because cassettes are analog and CD's are digital hence the difference!

[@BacktoTranceCassettes]

I love cassettes! Because it was on cassettes that I recorded the "Trance Mutation" radioshows, which shaped my musical taste! 🤩

[@StarsBarsAndCheese]

I love cassettes and always have but when I was a kid maybe 4 I took the tape out of a cassette not VHS (which makes it worse) and put the tape into the VCR. The VCR died that day so I never got to watch VHS :(

[@glenesis]

Guess what? Still can't jog or drive conveniently with yer vinyl albums, kids.

[@skullandbones1832]

Still have all of my Alpine pull out cassette decks from the 1990s and Alpine Equalizers.

[@yakadoodledongywongy8718]

Cassettes had 3 things going for them that we had to wait until the digital era to have again. They were dirt cheap. They were portable. And one of the biggest things and you've touched upon it is recording whatever you wanted. The 20th century equivelant of downloading music. Some.of the comeback is nostalgia and then novelty for you ger people. But to be honest some of it just makes sense. Even in the digital era tapes would be cheaper than usb sticks and SD cards.

[@currentphonograph7487]

Analog physical media is selling well VS. Digital. Both vinyl records & music cassette tape r top sellers

[@modernman8967]

i like cds still.

[@Me97202]

This is simply nostalgia and a fad. There’s nothing about cassettes that are either more convenient or better quality then our newer options.

[@UrOpinionsSucc]

It's not about quality..plus you forgot that cassettes are portable..If you want decent quality sound, then get Type II Chrome tapes..

[@dobermanguy9437]

@@UrOpinionsSucc cassettes actually sound terrific if they are made properly I like a good cassette deck with dbx for instance you'd be very surprised

[@janetballz5641]

They sound good as long you don't use a new cassette player, its not like vinyl where they still sell quality players

[@gort9374]

Nobody thinks that people are gonna ditch Spotify and start listening on maxwells, but for young people like myself these are cool things to experiment with. Aswell they’re cheap, it’s nice to have you’re music on a physical format so I was between CDs and Viynl. CDs are nothing special and are digital just like Spotify and they’re boring, viynl is very delicate and very expensive and I can’t record onto it. Tape is a special format, it’s analog, can be recorded on and is far cheaper than viynl

[@Ruinwyn]

​@Gort yep, people still like to actually own their music and buy albums, and cassettes are perfectly suited for that. Even basic Type I can sound better than free Spotify. They are compact, portable and robust enough for teenage handling. Tapes have low level of standard hiss, but brains clean it out easily. There is an appeal in analogue sound. Vinyls might reach higher sound quality at the top end, but cassettes can give better bang for buck. You need to spend a lot more in equipment for Vinyls to get to the level of basic vintage sony walkman. People remember the radio recordings on cheap boomboxes to cheap tape or the copies of copies they got from friends. We don't judge digital music based on the cellphone concert recordings, we shouldn't judge cassettes based on careless teenage recordings either.

[@jessihawkins9116]

they must have run out of things to talk about

[@kforkrish]

Since the vinyl prices are skyrocketing and CDs are almost sounds like streaming content. Is the very reason why the already affordable and also compact in sice, cassette sales increasing in popularity, and also keeping alive our love of nostalgic feelings towards them.

[@bradenbagby4431]

Love collecting cassettes

[@joyasmusicales603]

CDs, Casettes, Vinyl! Love them all! Woo!

[@antoniomorales261]

That poor guy in the glasses, he doesn’t know of the retro gaming scene

[@fraudsarentfriends4717]

Mp3 is the poorest quality. Mp3 players are dead. Discman doesn't skip. Amazing how they get so much wrong in such a short segment on this show.

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

The vinyl revival was pretty pointless too. Anything physical will wear out, so back it up on file when it's new.

[@DetroitNinja]

Memorex tapes were my go to.

[@jerrywcarman1483]

It's 44.1 sample rande, whatever that means. They've probably got tired of paying those sky high prices.

[@OldTechMemories.mp3]

I love them both equally

[@JG-pj3bg]

Long live physical media😎

[@albertpintor3522]

I love both but tapes are cheaper and I can record off spotify from phone to the tape deck and then the songs are mine without downloading the spotify decryption software or buying a download

[@JerrySpann-fn4kw]

Anybody with a desktop computer and an optical drive can actually make CDs using Spotify. The quality is just as good as store bought CDs.

[@austinflores8552]

For the RECORD my dude i was born in '99 I remember a time before the iphone was even made or even thought of

[@mattjazzfan2288]

I think Walkmans are intriguing to zoomers because they’re so used to smartphones being able to do everything that it’s a cool novelty to have a device like a Walkman that only has one function but does it well.

[@normstuff8563]

Nardwaur is punching the air rn

[@Mike-yo7nb]

Right!

[@surgen9499]

Yes less expensive and Great sound

[@pinkblue1969]

Daniel Johns FutureNever was released on Tape!! This year!! I never left home without my Walkman!! Then DiscMan 😁😁

[@DiepSpartan119]

I still use my walkman 1980s and a lot of cassette tapes in my basement box like hundreds since my parents use in 90s buying a lot of them

[@kforkrish]

Cassettes are taking over vinyls again... As back then it's the main motive reason they have actually invented for.

[@OIOcellOIO]

No.

[@JustinGone]

No. Cassettes sound terrible.

[@neoneherefrom5836]

Christ the hipsters force trends wherever they can. Lol

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

People still say "hipster" ? My God. Time to move on.

[@neoneherefrom5836]

@@Discrimination_is_not_a_right hipster detected

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

@@neoneherefrom5836 What? Where?

[@profscarlett]

What about 8tracks?

[@rwj777]

I still own many of them and still listen to them in 2022.

[@stvlu733]

AKAI 82D and a bunch of tapes and you will hear something different than what a cassette can put out.

[@Mabaws-ju9wp]

Cassettes and CDs is Far more portable than Vinyl EPs and LPs. Cassettes and CDs still had its own Disadvantages, Still its relatvely Cyrstal Clear Audio compared to Vinyl. Especially Vinyl got clicks from dirty or scratched vinyls. Vinyl clicks is fine if you had a decent speakers with audio system, but with headsets and headphone it's a nuisance.

[@JerrySpann-fn4kw]

If cassettes do come back, so should Dolby Noise Reduction and Chrome tapes. Also decent decks with AC bias recording and electrical erase heads.

[@axelfiedel3793]

​@@JerrySpann-fn4kw Sadly, Dolby has stopped licensing their noise reduction system since Ray Dolby passed away 10 years ago. There's some good news that National Audio Company does make Type II tapes but they're Cobalt rather than Real CrO2.

[@Mike-yo7nb]

It's a lost art.

[@joyasmusicales603]

It's found art!

[@Mike-yo7nb]

@@joyasmusicales603 for you. But many have no idea IMO

[@joyasmusicales603]

@@Mike-yo7nb born in the 2000s?

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[@Me97202]

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[@Toogoodtobetrue458]

I didn’t like cassette cuz it would get eaten up by my deck.

[@JerrySpann-fn4kw]

I hated cassettes because side A would sound crisp and clear, flip over to side B and the sound would be muffled and lacking treble. I would adjust the azimuth to make side B sound good and side A would then be muffled and bassy.

[@deedeemaclnnis1024]

True. But that doesn’t happen all the time, unlike cds and vinyls that can. Get scratched or damaged easily.

[@6j6666]

No. No we aren't.

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

Why not? For all their faults, they still skipped way less than vinyl.

[@gort9374]

Some of us are

[@mikepxg6406]

No.