Cassettes, why do they sound better to me than mp3's ?

snowdog said:
Or I think faultless music just sucks I think, I've always preffered Gramophone record to cd's too.
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You contradict yourself. Whilst neither are faultless CD's are less true to life and less good quality than records as they artificially cut of the top and bottom frequencies. If you prefer music to be faulted you'd thus prefer CDs over records.
 
Neoni said:
to be honest come play your Cassette through my KRK VXT8's and tell me it sounds better than an mp3, these retail at 1k a pair.
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He wants it with faults :/

The better the equipment the less faults there are.

The answer is you prefer them because you're the diametric opposite of an audiophile.

fini said:
You contradict yourself. Records are more faultless than CDs as they don't artificially cut of the top and bottom frequencies.
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Unless you're using a crap/old/worn needle/player/record, in which case you'd get the noises coming through from that too.
 
Gilly said:
Unless you're using a crap/old/worn needle/player/record, in which case you'd get the noises coming through from that too.
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Well yes, but if he's going that far why not just scratch a CD to hell and enjoy the faults as it jumps all over the place.
 
No you don't get it, I dont want jumping, cd errors suck, I wan't it to sound old though, with a bit of ''noise'' through the music, and just not pure notes but a bit distorted.
Thats the stupidity of cd's tbh, damaged= skipping, while a cassette would just play it a bit distorted or more silent for a few secs.



Or perhaps it's indeed the speakers, and I prefer a mono-ish noise, atm on pc I can clearly hear diff between left and right and I'm surrounded by it.
While the radio much sounded as 1 whole and not several channels surrounding u.
 
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snowdog said:
No you don't get it, I dont want jumping, cd errors suck, I wan't it to sound old though, with a bit of ''noise'' through the music, and just not pure notes but a bit distorted.
Thats the stupidity of cd's tbh, damaged= skipping, while a cassette would just play it a bit distorted or more silent for a few secs.



Or perhaps it's indeed the speakers, and I prefer a mono-ish noise, atm on pc I can clearly hear diff between left and right and I'm surrounded by it.
While the radio much sounded as 1 whole and not several channels surrounding u.
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your speakers are naff then. send me an mp3 u want editing ill whack some noise on it, in pro tools, and away you go!
 
Will do if you want in the morning (that'll prolly be a ** afternoon like 5 pm), but now that I think about it ( yes I'm very tired and I'm very forgetting atm, havent slept properly a whole week I'm prolly talking bs all the time today lol) it might be my middle frequency's just messing up with my speakers, as I recall someone saying that. It are cheap Trust soundwave 2000p speakers. ( 12 W sub, 5x2 W channels)
 
We do get it, you're not alone. Plenty of people prefer that 'warmer' sound you get from tape or vinyl. It's not that unheard of, honest. There's a degree of romanticism and nostalgia about it. Plus imo things have gotten a bit too crystal clear and bass heavy for my liking in recent years, something that softens that digital 'punchiness' on that mtv rap claptrap my sister plays would be more than welcome. I'm getting old.
 
I also love pure bass though, blast a few hours of house music :D.
I like all music, from the 60's to now.


Rock, Pop, R&B, Hip hop/rap, funk, house, blues, jazz, dance, etc I like everything both old and new :).

It's only somehow with these ( atm talkign about a casette with hits from 74-76 ) that I prefer the casette above the mp3's.
 
It's probably a case of the music of the day being mixed to be played on what was likely to be the equipment of the day.

So old songs sound better on tape and through an old radio but naff as mp3s, whereas modern songs sound great on modern equip and not so good otherwise?
 
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snowdog said:
No, I mean I prefer the un-perfect, the mp3 sounds dull and boring and perfect, while on the cassette you can clearly hear the artifacts, wich give it a little something extra.

I think I actually prefer a bit deformed music, and don't like the sound of mp3's.
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Music is essentially a collection of distorted sound waves and different people have different levels of tolerances for such distortion. Also certain (especially older music) are better suited to older media like vinyl and tape.

Finally, as may already know, most modern music is mastered to be very loud and compressed so it may be possible that the tape was recorded from an older source, once which was recorded at a more reasonal level. In other words, the tape version may actually have more dynamic range than your mp3.
 
Tape can actually distort the signal in a way that can make it sound "nicer" even tho it's still distortion (in a similar way that tube amps add harmonics).

Try recording your mp3's on to tape and see how they sound then.
 
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