they need to start making modern hi fi cassette decks

@TheKevinKruger

6 жыл бұрын

Hope they do. They also need Sony to put out some Walkman's out again. I really need one.

@ShazeemKhan

6 жыл бұрын

Kevin Kruger they need to ressurect their ES line

@v-g-z3689

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheKevinKruger Same! My last model from 2011 is already pretty beaten up, I didn´t treat it well as a teen ;)

@thespeez

4 жыл бұрын

If someone DOES come back with a quality cassette deck, I hope Dolby will once again license out it noise-reduction technology again! Dolby technology was a MAJOR asset in promoting better cassette audio quality! And another thing: NO TASCAM or ANY OTHER CHINESE CASSETTE DECKS!!!!

@RealSergiob466

4 жыл бұрын

There is TEAC and Tascam. They still have high-quality tape player. The downside is they don't record Type IV tape. They only record Type I and II (chrome) tape. But yeah still a high quality modern cassette deck. They cost US$400-US$500

Long live the Cassette!!!

@dyfanhuws-jones6911

5 жыл бұрын

thank the cassette god peter quill

@baqikenny

3 жыл бұрын

lol not just for music, majority of bulk storage for decades of old company data today is still using magnetic tapes, because they are just so cheap and reliable.

I love both records and tapes. I play more tapes though, so i'm glad they're starting to pick back up.

@TheKevinKruger

6 жыл бұрын

Logan Prosperie+ You are completely right. I basically do the same thing as you. Vinyl + Cassette enthusiast!

@fernandomoreno182

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheKevinKruger same and i collect herb alpert and ray conniff records

Always loved cassettes used to make real mixtapes for friends and people would always look at me funny as I carried around an old walkman

@maryantish2160

5 жыл бұрын

Sssssss

@k.p.thukasingamk.p.thulasi6967

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I am also like and love using cassette tapes unfortunately now it's not available in market

Oh come on! I just started collecting records!

@furgusuned15650

7 жыл бұрын

Alek Bazin and then once you collect tapes you move on to reel to reel. it is a slippery slope

@Turborider

6 жыл бұрын

i am not the letter E Nah, I stick to my tapes.

@martinaraujo2555

3 жыл бұрын

You'll find cassettes are much cheaper.

No joke, I JUST got back from goodwill; almost their ENTIRE cassette section is cleared out... It was full of decent stuff less than 4 months ago...

@furgusuned15650

7 жыл бұрын

hairoftehdog goodwill is doing that. local shops are the way to go now

@ShazeemKhan

6 жыл бұрын

Do they have a website?

@ShazeemKhan

2 жыл бұрын

@Keenan and Yuri ok thank u sir

@ShazeemKhan

2 жыл бұрын

@Keenan and Yuri LOL I didn't even watch the date, goes to show ppl can still connect

They should begin manufacturing Metal tapes again

@maryantish2160

5 жыл бұрын

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhh

Personally I'm not into tapes but I'm holding my thumbs for it, because it means that physical media are not dead.

Now if only Crosley had a tape deck...

@tangiblespace

7 жыл бұрын

Lol, I actually think they do.

@ClarenceFisher

7 жыл бұрын

It would horrify me if Crosley ever came out with an I pod

@furgusuned15650

7 жыл бұрын

Gregory Short (popcrackle.com) ya that way we could burn them all and never let them hurt anybody

@cameronjones228

7 жыл бұрын

It's called the microwave

@mikemoyercell

6 жыл бұрын

If they did/do it’d be junk just like the rest of the junk they make these days

I've been buying cassettes for a while now and I love it!!!!

@jhonwask

6 жыл бұрын

I've been buying them since 1972. LOL. The quality has gotten much better since then.

@maryantish2160

5 жыл бұрын

Fc

@dyfanhuws-jones6911

5 жыл бұрын

so have i but i live in the uk we dont have a lot of tapes over in wales but still amazing!

In my country we still have an hiphop group that still releases some of their álbuns in kaset

Man you look so young. Were you already born in the era of the cassette?

I never left tape world, like most of the world. I never stopped making mixtapes, beat tapes and noise tapes. I have an extensive catalog of tape releases too on various DIY/indie labels.Thanks for the cool video and info links.

It's cool to see cassettes doing well. Vinyl and cassettes are together again! I'm all for it.

I started putting my releases on cassette in 2016, i love cassettes, they also can't have a loud master like Vinyl so it sounds good, since you made this video cassette sales in the UK have risen a lot. I like that you can have low amounts of cassettes made and they don't cost much but have a great sound especially for bass and percussion.

Will someone please start making good quality cassette (three head) recorders.

Record Labels need to release reel-to-reel tapes.

@VapeTeddy

7 жыл бұрын

there was a limted edition beatles one on reel to reel

@fmtelevison

7 жыл бұрын

Jose Garcia what about the people who still have 8-track player/recorders?

@garcjr

7 жыл бұрын

From what I have heard the sound quality wasn't good and there was problems with cross-talk. But I'm not 100% I haven't known anyone who still has a working 8-track player.

@fmtelevison

7 жыл бұрын

We do and there are many other people we know do also ( have 8-track players/recorders)

@SPAZZOID100

7 жыл бұрын

Jose Garcia no. VINYL

I came back to vinyl three years ago after rediscovering my record collection. Since then I've been building my collection with visits to our local record fairs and used vinyl shops. Anyway after watching this video I was inspired to buy a tape deck - I wanted something ok, but did not want to spend a huge amount - so I found a mint Denon DRS-610. I have to say I was surprised at how good it sounds and how usable it is. Back in the 80s my setup was decidedly lo-fi - (what we in the UK would call High Street gear - by which we mean cheap units sold in general electrical retailers on the High Street!). I upgraded my setup just as CD grabbed the market, so never really heard a good turntable or cassette deck. After relying on MP3 players and earbuds for most of my music between 2005 and 2014 I was so excited when I head how BIG the "old" tech sounded. Anyway love the channel - keep the content coming it's great!

Just bought an old onkyo cassette deck from ’91 these weekend. So your video came just in the right time. :) Found my old mixtapes from the 90s at my parents attic and they sound amazing. Keep up your good work, Wolfgang

I grew up in the 80s listening to most of my music on tape and I did all the way up until the late 90s. I still kept all of my cassettes and I am glad I did so I don't have to buy the music again.

Collecting cassettes since 2013 and thinking it's really awesome to have, hold in hands and listen variety of favorite sounds and projects of not only well-known artists but also many home-sitters. Love the ability to support em and easily contact with ^^

Cassette tapes are pretty cool. I was surprised to see the resurgence of it and hope it grows more and more. ❤

@buppie2000

2 ай бұрын

I fail to see what is cool about them. Once I could burn my own CD's, tape died.

Very cool. When cassettes originally started to die out completely, a store in my area was selling blank chrome tapes for 25cents each plus they all had "Half price" and "Buy one, get one free" stickers on them. So literally four tapes for a quarter. No one was buying them at the time but I stocked up on hundreds of them. I still have over 140 and just made a White Stripes mixtape for a friend. I got a brand new (from the 90's, still sealed in the box) JVC deck as a gift from my Father in law. Amazing sound quality and a variety of editing options.

I've bought a couple tapes recently and it's great fun getting them in the mail. Labels will often throw in little bonuses including candy and stickers, and it makes you feel really special holding something that clearly has a lot of care and passion behind it. And I feel that warmth everytime I play my tapes, and that's not the analog sound.

>doesn't mention vaporwave

Cassette eyezz sidechannel confirmed?

Tapes are a great way to collect music. It's like any type of collectible. Especially with music, you achieve having a more intimate relationship with an album when it's on a physical media. It means so much more than just giving a song a thumbs up or adding it to a playlist. Tapes are inexpensive and fun when you have the right equipment. I do side by side comparisons of streaming songs vs. on tape, vs. on vinyl, etc, and tapes are one of my favorite types of media because when you find a good tape, it lasts for a long damn time.

I always loved the cassette format..great to see it making a resurgence

I'll challenge any casual listener of music to a blind test in which they can say which sound quality they prefer - or if they even can tell the difference - high quality metal and chrome tapes or regular mp3's from a media player or streamed music from a mobile phone. I was a kid when tapes were beginning to disappear but invested in high quality tapes as a 10 year old and made mix tapes with the hi-fi tape deck I inherited from my dad. A few months ago I began listening to the recordings I had made as a kid. My jaw dropped because the sound was way better than I remembered and sounded more natural than the compressed music files I'm accustomed to. Here's the pity: 95% of all those that had cassettes purchased the cheapest kind, recorded their tapes on some portable player and never cleaned the tape heads. For this reason they sounded awful and wore out in no time. But I never counted regular consumers as knowledgeable in hi-fi anyhow so I'm going to ignore their tired old cliches.

@pelgervampireduck

6 жыл бұрын

cassette is an horrible piece of shit, BUT MP3 IS WORSE!!!!!!. mp3 destroys information in a way it's impossible to recover. you lose some quality going from vinyl or cd to cassette, but it's not as much as the signal destruction that mp3 does. so, cassette is better than mp3, cd is better than cassette, and vinyl is better than everything.

Getting into cassettes is what got me into vinyl and other vintage technology.

I've started listening to vinyl in 2014 in 2016 after seeing your video about cassettes it made me go out and by a deck and receiver. Your awesome man keep up the Videos and continue to educate us music wise. Cassette is an awesome format to have. For those who think downloading music is the best thing ever, is wrong! Having a hard copy of any type of music on any format is greater then having a file that will be long forgotten in 20 years from now.

this is one of the best videos on KZread, and it's not because I grew up during the cassette era lol

I think part of the appeal of cassettes is that they represent a tangible collection of music but fit in the palm of your hand-it's basically the smallest form of music distribution that still allows you to see how it really works.

Thanks for this video so much, here in eastern europe it's kind of hard to find good indie music in a physical format, and this video helped a lot

United Cassettes is not a label, but was made for labels to share their releases. I started it in summer 2015 from Slovakia, now it is operated by my friends and I am focusing on my own label Z Tapes. Thanks for sharing it and caring about cassettes. Means world to us. :)

I've got into tapes more and more loving it. Just got a Walkman DD II to go along with my Bang & Olufsen Beocord 8000 deck

Great list of stores, thanks!

Love that they're back and I use my Walkman like every freakin day

Love me some casettes! Got a mp3 converter for my Walkman back in the day, but I'm happy it can be used for it's intended purpose again.

Hi Jarrette, Although they stopped making c-90 tapes - it is not a bad thing on the technical side of any cassette deck. The longer the tape is, the more stress it is of the winding and rewinding part of the mechanism.

I bought a Project Debut Carbon thanks to you Jared. You introduced me to a whole new world of music. Keep up the good work!

i'm so glad they still make chrome tapes because they sound exactly the same as regular ferric tapes and cost much more.

Cassettes are great,hope they come back like vinyl did,just remember to rewind & keep the heads clean

2018 will be the year of the 8-Track comeback!!

@thespeez

7 жыл бұрын

I doubt it, but we will see....

@filipesequeira4923

5 жыл бұрын

2019 will be the year of DAT (Digital Audio Tape)

@Johnthemusicguy

5 жыл бұрын

And 2019 will be the big wire recorder comeback. Acoustic 78s anyone?

@Johnthemusicguy

5 жыл бұрын

Oh yea! Mini discs. There's an idea who's time still hasn't come.

@barbdrake5999

4 жыл бұрын

Posts that didn’t age well

cassetes are amazing , the sound and design are only incredibles !!

Awesome! We also need to get back 8-track cartridges, which are totally awesome. Cheers!

@vinyleyezz

7 жыл бұрын

haha, for sure. Physical media will never die! :D

After this video, which was great! I am glad I didn't throw all my hundreds of tapes away. I collect vinyl and have hundreds of them. I used to sell PARTY DANCE TAPES at Pontins Holiday centres in the U.K. Where I worked as Uncle Harold. They did include Captain Crocks March Out, and the music was by S.Hights who went on to work in Blackpool Tower. I also worked in Torremolinos in Spain for 16 years with my wife JOSE PAIGE who was a dancer from the Windmill London. See me on 1997 Pontins Blackpool Bluecoats in Wizard of oz. I played the Scarecrow. And for magicians I do a ROPE TRICK. Things do go wrong with things as well as performances. On one performance in Blackpool Tower the string broke on my vent doll. I took of the head and pretended to be a doctor. My roadie Chris Kemp started to laugh so the audience laughed too. I tried to cover it up but what a laugh all round.

I grew up With cassettes. Had literally many many hundreds. Dumped them at the Garbage Place and I have never regretted it. Tapes do have a warmer sound than CDs, but all in all the cd was very welcome in 1987 when I got my first player. Still, many years after I got a cd player, tapes were also widely used. Taped songs from CDs and vinyl on to cassettes which we would listen to. Cassette players was the one format that was everywhere from 1980-2000. Everywhere.

HI Jarrett. Yes We Brits love the Physical Format. Throughout the late 80's through the 90's Cassettes were free with Vinyl records. I have loads of them. All they had on them were Clips from the forth coming Album or None Album or Single (45) tracks. Or Tracks that will not be Available other than on that Cassette. Or there might be a 12" version that will not be on anything else. Or there might be a Interview a message or just the group fooling around. Some also came In elaborate cases as well. Keep the Video's coming. Thanks.

Both of my releases were put out on tape. It's wonderful.

I love both Vinyl and Tapes!

Wonderful video! I just got given a tape deck this week which I've cleaned up! I should have done a before and after and made a video for my channel but I was too excited to get it playing. Thanks for all the info :-)

Thanks J for all the cool videos. I remember your first video from a while back on the Comeback of Cassettes and the link to Techmoan's Video: Cassettes Better Than You Don't Remember I've since then purchased 2 Tape decks the 1st was a TECHNICS (same as my Turntables) which had Auto Reverse but the head was out of line as people mention. My Current is a DENON DRM-540 Single Well Deck with NO AUTOREVERSE and it's perfect cool to mix it up every now and again.

i love my cassettes and i grew up with them even tough im 14. But i never realized that they are popular again !

@silverelite2558

7 жыл бұрын

TheMichaelJacksonBlogDE I grew up with more cassetts than CDs but I guess I haven't heard that much music in general

I think it’s real cool because I own a car that only plays cassette tapes so hearing the culture is coming back it’s pretty great for me lol

I love it! I have Yamaha Deck and a tape deck in my Buick.

Fantastic!! Thank You!

So happy I live in the UK. I am going to check out those sites. Back to the good old days.

I LOVE CASSETTES !!!

Thanks for the info! Do you know if there are still any new car stereos that have cassette decks available?

Stones Throw and Fatbeats regularly put out tapes of most of their artist, for the hip hop tip. Tapes are cool. I enjoy that I'm almost forced to listen through the whole album. I mean you can fast forward but you'll probably miss the beginning of the next song. They make me appreciate the tracks more too. My tape stash is slowly out growing my record stash.

@purpleghost4083

7 жыл бұрын

HGHRCLBR Many decks had/have a track search function that skips forward/back to the start of songs using the break between them (as long as there is a break). It's not foolproof but generally works well. As for being almost forced to listen to an entire album (or side), you can do that with CDs too, for example. You just have to be willing to do it. Fight the urge to skip the track(s) on the CD - just let it play on like you would with the tape. I don't have a problem with letting it play. It's simply about self control.

@EtoileBleu52

6 жыл бұрын

you can also use the tape counter

@ryanthewolf5014

6 жыл бұрын

If your low on tapes, check out goodwill, I recently found 2 full cases of 30 cassettes

honestly I got into cassettes a couple years ago because I thought that the old boomboxes just looked cool. however, collecting boomboxes got me into vintage hifi, and after finding my first box for $10 at a thrift store, my collection has grown to 4 boom boxes from the mid 80's, an old school Walkman, and a full vintage Technics Hifi setup from the same era. I don't use it all to be trendy or pretend it sounds better, but it's just interesting and more fun than the monotony of how music is played and stored now. Vinyl and cassette are just fun tangible forms of music. By no means do they sound bad, but I'm not going to pretend that it sounds any better than today's listening devices. For me, cassettes and vinyl are a more intimate experience with my music. The variety of different players and designs of the cassettes and records adds to the experience and makes collecting and listening more enjoyable than simply downloading or streaming music to my phone.

proud Nakamichi DR 3 owner here

@furgusuned15650

7 жыл бұрын

aziz alali cr1a here. I got a steal on it, 5 bucks.

@TheKevinKruger

6 жыл бұрын

Sony CFD-V15 owner here! Great sound!

@filipesequeira4923

5 жыл бұрын

Teac V 6030 S, owner here

Intriguing, I used to have a large cassette collection. In the 80's and 90's. Got rid of it in early 2000's, but luckily kept all of my vinyl. I always liked cassettes back then for taking into my car or walkman but the vinyl always came out at home and for serious listening(jamming). Most of my cassettes didn't seem to age well over 5-10 years of use either, which is also why I got rid of them. I still have all my CDs, maybe in in 10 years that will be all the rage, lol...

im excited to see cassette tapes still exist. I have a big addiction to music I have a lot of cassette tapes, records and cds.

Its great that cassettes are back i was buying them so much and i think i do it same old times

As soon as I get a good tape deck, I'll start collecting more tapes. I have some now that I can't listen to unless I play them back on my 4 track lol.

Hey man love watching your videos! I subbed

Ty for sharing !!

He'll yeah. I still listen to cassettes in my truck. Best part is you can find entire albums for pennies

I got a sony TC-WE305 thrown in for free at a garage sale. Ordered new belts for 7$ and its sounding great again!

love cassettes. .. I like being able to record talk radio and other programs to listen to later on road-trips ... I kept my old truck forever because it had a cassette deck in it..... my new truck does not ..I will need to retro fit it... ☆ old school rules

I've recently gotten into cassettes, I love the analog sound they produce, yet are cheaper and don't take up as much room as Vinyls do.

Maxell is still making normal bias 60 and 90 minute cassettes!

Great to see so much UK stuff. Tapeline are great.

For artists this is actually a good way to get music to people. If you produce your own music today, you have multiple options. Of course everyone will advise you to put it online as MP3s for download, but actually that is the most boring thing, because there are thousands others doing exactly the same, so basically no one will download your stuff, not even for free. Now you can also save money for 12 months like crazy, get a second job - and then (one day) you can produce your own vinyl LP. Now that´s quite in synch with the current zeitgeist. But it´s very expensive and will force you to be very serious about sales - and hence it will be very frustrating, because it may take three to four years to sell the whole edition. If you are lucky and the music is good. But if you are rather productive and want get out like 2 or 3 albums a year - well then you can forget about that or just go bankrupt over it. And then there is CD - which is still rather expensive in making - if you want to make it nice and have for example a professional digipack design. But unfortunately at this point CDs are regarded as the ultra-boring medium and no one wants to pay for it anyway. Or would anyone like to invest in a CD production factory today? So it is actually quite amazing, that there is suddenly a peculiar fourth option - because everyone can produce tapes at a quality level that is not that much different from what a factory would deliver. You can already start with less than 200$ in your hand and sell tapes for 5$ or 6$ - but what is more important, you can suddenly have a feedback, an echo from people purchasing it, a reaction to what you do. And you can still give out a lot for free, without hurting too much. For an artist this is 1000x better than having a Bandcamp site with digital albums that no one gives a shit about. K7 is a tiny scene. And yes people may chuckle about it. But it looks a lot different from an artist´s perspective. It´s better to have some sex in a small scene than no sex at all in the big wide world full of smart-asses. ;-)

hi Jarrett, Collecting cassette isn't just a hipster thing, but more like a hobby for people that like collect any vintage format style of music.

Love it mate

i own a collection of 80s ghettoblasters they work great and they also have dolby noise reduction i usethem my cassettes sound great still

thank you for this video! I record music and I like to use tape instead of digital sometimes and I'm running low on cassettes.

I spent a fair amount of time digitizing some tapes I couldn't get in a different format. Back in the day making mix tapes and playing such creations was fun. I don't see why I'd go back. I still have my Technics tape decks. They still work, probably. (Not selling.)

Good tapes and a good deck are great. They are also very convenient.

I have a pioneer CT-S830S cassette deck and i make my own mix tapes on chrome & metal tape using dolby S and they sound absolutely awesome. I also love my audio technica turntable too...keep spinning that vinyl and spools!!!

This will be really handy for my Sony Walkman!! now if only i had something i could record on.

Cassettes are making a big comeback. I recommend The Salvation Army if you for some reason, can't get online. The sell them 29 cents a tape. Great Deals!

Jarrett. keep up the great work.

I love cassettes ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I am happy about this!!!! I thought Cassettes died years ago even though I Love to make mix tapes which I have not done in years but it is fun. Used to make them to play in the car. But tapes are still cool and I still have a pretty good collection!!

They were what we had back in the day. Vinyl and cassette's. Typically many of us would try and get both formats. One for listening at home, the other for our cars, Walkmans, and boom boxes. I think it's great that there is a renewed interest in them. The affordability factor in production, marketing and distribution will get more good quality music into our hands.

Lots of good info on this video-I still have cassettes from years ago that play, & my wife plays tapes in her car! Great to see some companies releasing new music on them! Thank You!! E

The music cassette is a Phillips invention. I loved them, still play them in my car.

I love using these

Any good online resources for learning about tape types? Any online trading posts for tapes that you've found? Thanks! Great video!

I have a hundreds cassettes with music from the 80s.They still sound great.

I love cassettes so im planning to make a couple mixtapes for me and my friends

Keep up the good work 👏

Does anybody know if National Audio company are still making any type 2 cassettes? I can only find their type 1s now.

I been waiting for this day

my youth was beautifully filled with cassette tech. I do feel a love and hate relationship with this technology. I love for it's nostalgic value and how convenience it was to go around and carry a Walkman with 2 cassette. I hated when made a compilation cassette on my deck and it sounded muffled at other player due to different azimuth callibration. the sound quality do deteriorate after 6 years. well that was a beautiful memory and honestly I am glad to see this technology make it's comeback.

I love the good old Minidisc!!! Better than tape and the disc's are indestructible!!! And it looks cool!