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+title: Cassettes
+date: 2024-03-27
+extra:
+  kind: note
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+
+I like the idea of cassettes. They are cheap and analog, and there’s a culture of sharing and trading them. I like the sound of tape saturation and hysteresis.
+
+They feel much more approachable than vinyls. I dislike snobbery.
+
+## So I bought a cassette player
+
+![A Sony cassette recorder next to a pile of cassettes](/files/cassette_player.jpeg)
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+It’s a Sony TCM-459V and it’s only a bit noisy and wobbly. It can record too.
+
+After listening to all of my tapes (not very many, see picture), A side and B side, I can safely say that I like cassettes.
+
+## Maintenance
+
+The manual says that the innards need cleaning (rubbing alcohol + q-tip) after every 10 hours of operation. I don’t think this unit has ever been cleaned.
+
+The belts might also need changing since they apparently go bad after a while.
+
+## Tapes catch on fire
+
+I read on the internet that peoples’ tapes have spontaneously combusted. This is a thing to avoid.