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I have to ask the obligatory question: "How long before the stored data turns to mush?" Are we speaking of 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 100 years, etc.?Another_Mod said:article here
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hopefully a lot longer than current mediaGE plans to release holographic discs first for the commercial archival industry, followed by the consumer market.
LOL!Another_Mod said:hopefully a lot longer than current media
That's the problem.
Whenever a new media comes out claims are made it will be better, last longer even 100 years, to get people to use it. Then after a few years it starts failing and the excuses start flowing.
i agree the first cd's that came out still work and the later ones made in where ever the quality was reduced such a low level that some of my old cassettes give better sound then new cd's
Well, your cassettes have a better frequency response...........erik_guy2001 said:i agree the first cd's that came out still work and the later ones made in where ever the quality was reduced such a low level that some of my old cassettes give better sound then new cd's
I just buy a portable hard drive for backup - I think optical discs for data are dead for most of us
well, your hard drive isn't much more secure......onthebottom said:I just buy a portable hard drive for backup - I think optical discs for data are dead for most of us
I still have audio cassettes from the 70s that still play/sound fine.erik_guy2001 said:.... some of my old cassettes give better sound then new cd's
Probably the best way right now and can be stored encrypted if you want.onthebottom said:I just buy a portable hard drive for backup - I think optical discs for data are dead for most of us
Ext drives are massive and cheap.
Peckr:WoodPeckr said:I still have audio cassettes from the 70s that still play/sound fine.
Probably the best way right now and can be stored encrypted if you want.
Ext drives are massive and cheap.
If you want to hear them in the best possible light, get yourself a nakamichi tape deck. A dragon preferably and for the car, a TD1200. They were the creme de la creme back in the day and ran about $2400.00 each (the td1200). Now you can pick em up on ebay for a couple of hundred and I saw a nak tape deck in the garbage at my place and thought about snagging it but I don't even OWN a cassette anymore.....
Just thinking, I seem to recall doing a side by side test with the TD1200 and a kenwood CD player and the TD1200 was as good or better than the CD player in all categories. Especially frequency response because CDs are only 20 to 20 and the td1200 was something like 10 - 37???
I have a Technics 677 stero cassette deck from '77 that still works, with great specs that rivals a CD player and it was far cheaper than Nakamichi decks. It even has a 'wired remote' the first cassette deck with that feature....wireless remotes weren't invented yet.tboy said:If you want to hear them in the best possible light, get yourself a nakamichi tape deck.
The frequency response on that Technics deck was 30-17,000 Hz, with Chrome tapes, which was a good as it got back then. Not sure if Nakamichi beat that. The human ear can hear 20-20,000 so anything higher can't be heard anyways.
