Much has been written about the demise of physical media. Long considered the measure of technological progress in audiovisual and computing fields, the 2000s saw this metric seemingly rendered obs…
I like how they used a shitty cheaply made chinese cassette radio for the front picture. I can’t even really fault them; all the remotely decent ones are decades old and collector’s items…
Same goes for turntables, decent new ones that are selling for a couple of thousand dollars are still garbage compared to even an entry-level Technics deck from the 80s.
Some time ago, the industry seemed to have standardized on a cheap-ass all in one platter/motor/stylus assembly that’s just dropped into every modern record player now. I think I started seeing that thing everywhere in the late 80s. They did the same to tape players. It’s now just an entire chassis containing the play head, motor, etc where they just make a shell to go around it and a circuit board to drive it/amplify it.
Yep, that same old BSR mechanism that was invented in the mid-80s. Decent casette players use Tanashin mechanisms (or clones rather since Tanashin itself doesn’t make them anymore AFAIK) and as long as they have metal flywheels and proper erase heads they’re ok.
Forget about 3-Head Closed Loop Dual Capstan, though, you’re never gonna find that on a modern deck.
I like how they used a shitty cheaply made chinese cassette radio for the front picture. I can’t even really fault them; all the remotely decent ones are decades old and collector’s items…
Same goes for turntables, decent new ones that are selling for a couple of thousand dollars are still garbage compared to even an entry-level Technics deck from the 80s.
Some time ago, the industry seemed to have standardized on a cheap-ass all in one platter/motor/stylus assembly that’s just dropped into every modern record player now. I think I started seeing that thing everywhere in the late 80s. They did the same to tape players. It’s now just an entire chassis containing the play head, motor, etc where they just make a shell to go around it and a circuit board to drive it/amplify it.
Yep, that same old BSR mechanism that was invented in the mid-80s. Decent casette players use Tanashin mechanisms (or clones rather since Tanashin itself doesn’t make them anymore AFAIK) and as long as they have metal flywheels and proper erase heads they’re ok.
Forget about 3-Head Closed Loop Dual Capstan, though, you’re never gonna find that on a modern deck.