#eight track

[gennsoup]

You seemed to stand your ground even when the ground was soft and questionable.

Oana Avasilichioaei, Trackers

[fall-inside-a-hole]

listening to my disco tapes

[switchblade-radio]

Eight Track, the zones #1 fan of doom and gloom

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[8trackguy]

Another insane get: Gene Simmons. Gene had two pens in his hand – one blue, one white. He was just about to sign my tape in blue, which would’ve looked terrible because the sig would be invisible on the black album cover. I asked if he’d sign in white, instead. “Of course,” he said. Without missing a beat, he followed it with, “Would you like me to make you a sandwich, as well?” You gotta love the sense of humor on the guy. 👅🔥🔥🔥

[cyruspavels]

Eight Track

I watched vinyl records & 8 Tracks become CDs & cassette tapes.

Then I saw Napster & Limewire change the way we went to the record stores and then record stores passed away.

After that I heard Napster & LimeWire's mp3s get snatched up by Apple. Apple would then put music into all their smartphones, all the while spotify was the new music store via thin air —available now in seconds.

Sometimes the walk or trip back home was how you truly understood the music playing. The backdrop of your world—watching it go by while a soundtrack plays.

However, That kind of experience got taken away, Not just by the closing of record stores, But just by us becoming older and society evolving.

Music got played in my cars and headphones became irrelevant. The scrolling background was faster with a hint of luxury to it.

Then life changed and people began listening to music through their laptop speakers. What does music do then?

For an audiophile, this was the worst way to listen to albums. You could easily miss so many sounds if the mix isn't right for those speakers from Macbook pros and macbook airs.

Great engineers and advanced producers considered this greatly in their mixes. Songs got louder and the highs got higher. The threshold beyond the closeness to the ear of a headphone became wider.

And with that all—went a lot of warmth.

Vinyl records had a lot of warmth. Obviously the speaker cones in a home, no matter how small, were still bigger than the tiny mini cones from headphones that already had very little bottom end.

The 8-Track in a house somehow sounded the same in a car. You could hear all the instruments in the song like they were playing right in front of you live.

CDs lost some of that ability to hear every sound, but it could have depended on where you listened. I still believe mastering engineers compressed too much for CDs.

Cassette Tapes also weren't as warm as vinyl or 8 tracks and that probably had to do with where you listened and what the setup was. Headphones are no match for great home systems or high end car systems (because of the tighter space).

Lossless is cool, but cold in comparison, still.

All to say that simply because technology evolves it does NOT mean the user experience is better. More convenient? Maybe. Better? Not always.

You ask people who don't know—they'll swear that Lossless is better simply because they never got to listen to songs on 8 Track.

CP'24

[superstatik]

[gennsoup]

If we knew our species to be corrupt, we hoped that it may yet be salvageable

That on rare occasions, we'd feel a storm rise up inside another and respond

Oana Avasilichioaei, If

[adamharkus]

Music in High Fidelity

Music in High Fidelity

Music in High Fidelity. The Blogging Musician @ adamharkus.com Music in High Fidelity: A Brief History of the Tech that Paved the Way for Sound Today. By Sally Collins.

The first major breakthrough when it comes to in-home music was made in 1877 when Thomas Edison unveiled his creation: the phonograph (you probably know it as a record player). Since then, there have been seemingly endless…

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