I can understand the present fascination with analogue in the form of vinyl records and the whole tactile nature of playing a record. For the life of me though, I'm bewildered by the resurgence in tape cassette as a format. In a world where digital media players and FLAC lossless compression exists, or even just high bitrate MP3, why would anyone want to go back to tape hiss, dropout, treble roll-off, and the long cueing times of cassette?
All the tape plants from the major players closed down years ago. With them, the knowledge and skill to make good blank cassettes disappeared too. TDK, Maxell, Sony, BASF, Philips, etc, all of them closed their plants. What's left then are the sort of companies that made cheap and crappy blank tapes for Woollies, Boots, and Dixons. That's what's inside new TDK D 90s and the rest. It's no wonder people are searching out new old stock and paying through the nose for it. Rather them than me though.
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