Which is ridiculous because it’s really inarguable that between cassettes, CDs, vinyl and digital music, cassettes are by far the lowest quality. No amount of Dolby noise reduction is going to get rid of the hiss entirely either.
One big problem I’ve always had with cassettes is due to the nature of how cassettes work, the sound literally slows down as the battery in the player gets lower.
I really should know how they figured out how to do this what with going to school for audio engineering when cassettes were still around, but at some point, they figured out a way to get walkmen to just stop working when the battery was too low instead of slowing down.
But yeah, because of that, occasionally music at the right speed sounds too fast for me, especially classical music.
Are they really any cheaper to produce these days than CDs? I would think, now being a niche market, they would be more expensive. Supporting a local artist is always good, obviously.
I need to see some branding on this thing…never once seen thing before. Maybe my parents were just more frugal with their money?
Saw Flintstones, confirmed this wasn’t some home made thing. 100% the reason we didn’t get this stuff. Just cost too much for what it was, and is one of the contributing factors to why I have a house these days, I suspect. Thanks mom.
You don’t know how hard we had it in the 80s, man.
Cassettes are coming back
Which is ridiculous because it’s really inarguable that between cassettes, CDs, vinyl and digital music, cassettes are by far the lowest quality. No amount of Dolby noise reduction is going to get rid of the hiss entirely either.
One big problem I’ve always had with cassettes is due to the nature of how cassettes work, the sound literally slows down as the battery in the player gets lower.
I really should know how they figured out how to do this what with going to school for audio engineering when cassettes were still around, but at some point, they figured out a way to get walkmen to just stop working when the battery was too low instead of slowing down.
But yeah, because of that, occasionally music at the right speed sounds too fast for me, especially classical music.
I can’t say I actually know how they made it work, because I’ve never designed or worked on one, but circuitry that cuts out when the voltage drops is pretty common. More of an electrical/electronics engineering type of thing than audio engineering.
But with pristine audio in our pockets I do find a charm to it.
I can appreciate that.
But they’re cheap to produce and a good way to get something* small when supporting an artist.
Are they really any cheaper to produce these days than CDs? I would think, now being a niche market, they would be more expensive. Supporting a local artist is always good, obviously.
Not necessarily, but they are more novel and I’m more likely to buy one.
That does make sense.
Also I forgot to point out cheaper in comparison to records.
I would be shocked to learn it’s cheaper than producing a CD. I can almost guarantee that it’s simply some kind of kitschy thing.
Cheaper than records, which sell more than CDs.
Hell yeah I’m ahead of the curve, my shit ass old ass car has a tape player already B^)
I need to see some branding on this thing…never once seen thing before. Maybe my parents were just more frugal with their money?
Saw Flintstones, confirmed this wasn’t some home made thing. 100% the reason we didn’t get this stuff. Just cost too much for what it was, and is one of the contributing factors to why I have a house these days, I suspect. Thanks mom.
Push-pops are what I knew them as, they were everywhere. Gas stations, ice cream trucks, grocery stores, it’s crazy to me you’ve never seen them.
I don’t remember the brand, but I ate these all the time as a kid. I have the feeling they were cheap because my parents didn’t have any money.
We called them “pousse-pousse” in France, it means “push-push”, because you had to push the plastic thing from the bottom to push ice cream up.
There’s nothing like French pousse-pousse!
https://www.walmart.com/ip/NESTLE-PUSH-UP-Cherry-Blast-Turbo-Grape-Outrageous-Orange-Frozen-Dairy-Dessert-Bars-Variety-Pack-9-ct-Box/42678786
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Orange-Sherbet-Tubes-18-oz-6-Pack/10315765