Carl
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Post by Carl on Apr 17, 2020 14:53:38 GMT -5
CASSETTES. Every Enya album (and even a couple singles and EP's) has had cassette releases, yet Dark Sky Island didn't. As an Enya collector, I find it a pity, since cassettes have a very nostalgic feel and serve as great, little (often not that expensive) collectors item. Why do you guys think the decision was made to skip a good old cassette release for DSI? π€
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Post by RichardF on Apr 18, 2020 1:53:40 GMT -5
Back in 2015 tapes were very out of vogue, I think most people would only have a tape machine in their car. Tapes are having a bit of resurgence, akin to vinyl back in the teens. So maybe No.9 will see a tape release. Personally I'm spitting feathers that the high water mark of digital fidelity is the CD and it hasn't been upgraded since the mid 80s. The MP3 format was a degrade. Why the music industry can't get it together to up the sound to say 96,000 Hz 24 bit at least on DVD or Blu ray style disc. We have 4k video, but awfull sound.
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Carl
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Post by Carl on Apr 19, 2020 1:46:52 GMT -5
Back in 2015 tapes were very out of vogue, I think most people would only have a tape machine in their car. Tapes are having a bit of resurgence, akin to vinyl back in the teens. So maybe No.9 will see a tape release. Personally I'm spitting feathers that the high water mark of digital fidelity is the CD and it hasn't been upgraded since the mid 80s. The MP3 format was a degrade. Why the music industry can't get it together to up the sound to say 96,000 Hz 24 bit at least on DVD or Blu ray style disc. We have 4k video, but awfull sound. πΌ I sure hope album nr. 9 will get a cassette release, but either way, a cassette collection of Enyaβs repertoire will never be complete, since we will always have a βDark Skyβ gap. πΏ I think a Cd upgrade is something the music industry is simply not willing to invest in, because a format on a physical object is (sadly) not the future. Everything is digital now. A physical cd has become a collectors item in the same way a cassette has. Itβs an object that hardly gets played, since most cdβs get ripped/imported on the consumers computer, and then just stocked away with the rest of the cdβs. Nevertheless, I still will be buying cdβs for the beauty of it, even though I never play it in itself.
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Post by Riene on Apr 19, 2020 9:59:15 GMT -5
I'll definitely purchase any new CD from Enya, and as you said, copy it to my phone and computer. I do like having the physical CD--digital files can get corrupted or be accidentally deleted. I enjoy having the liner notes and cover art as well. And yes, we do occasionally play them on the big stereo surround sound system in the den, a relic from our youth when Bigger was Better. We could serenade the space station, I think, from those speakers!
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dom
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Post by dom on Apr 27, 2020 3:51:28 GMT -5
If cassette players are still easily available and cheaply priced I would still purchase them. But they are not collectors' items. Discs outlast them. The cassette player has a head that wears out tape over time caused by repeated playing. Compact disc players use a laser to read and therefore there is no physical contact. The albums I used to have on cassette formats, I have been seeking out CD versions. In fact I regret not buying disc formats for albums by other acts in my collection when I was younger when I had the chance. Should have just splashed more cash!
When I started collecting albums back in 1992 and stated I preferred cassette versions I was informed to opt for disc since cassettes of imported albums are expensive and a disc should last me a lot longer. So off I went to buy discs before I bought my first player. Some months later I bought my first player which also had a cassette playing slot. They don't make those like that anymore! Anyway to make a long story short, my tape players have retired. Cassette tapes discarded. My discs purchased back in 1992 with some pressings dating back to the 1980s are alive and well. So that is why I stopped buying cassettes.
I don't buy vinyl for the same reason I don't buy cassettes. Vinyl gets worn out from repeated play. The record needle wears out the vinyl surface. Years back the mini disc was supposed to take over from compact disc but that never happened. Anyway we're busy with remastered discs collecting and sometimes original pressings too.
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Post by Riene on Apr 27, 2020 11:24:24 GMT -5
I was never fond of cassettes--too easily tangled in the players. Loved vinyls, though...that warm burr of wear, the hiss and pop of dust...very nostalgic!
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