Audio Formats
Cassette Tape
Improvements in magnetic tape media during the 60’s and the
70’s paved the way for packaging this wonderful medium into a
more compact form, which eventually gave rise to the bulky 8-track cassettes,
and eventually the all too familiar 2-sided stereo cassette tape.
Cassette tapes, with all their usefulness however, have their downside.
They degrade in time, are prone to magnetic distortion, and do not faithfully
reproduce the original recordings with clarity compared to their newer
digital cousins.
Cassette tapes are not that widely used anymore. The dip in popularity
stems from emergence of newer, more resilient and acoustically stable
media. Most modern head unit manufacturers opt for the more popular
CD or DVD formats bundled with the standard commercial radio receiver.
Some manufacturers like Pioneer and Clarion still produce combination
cassette, CD and radio units for those who require it. The prices of
these head units range from £50 to £80, and £150 if
you want one that plays CD’s as well.
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