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He is right about the chrome & metal tapes: they sounded so much better than the standard ones (assuming the source was good quality)...
But, portability? Yeah, smaller than a CD, but you can put a lot more music in a CD these days. And let's not start with digital media players that can hold gigabytes of data...
Durability? Unless you only use them in your high quality deck, you will get them chewed sooner or later, and your high quality deck won't be the 'portable' one, rendering the portability argument invalid.
Who wants to listen to tapes these days, really? long rewind/forward, can't skip/find tracks, takes long to record...
When our singer said tapes were 'cool' and he was going to look into issuing a tape version of our last album I thought he was joking!
But one thing I see in common among all these tape enthusiasts: they weren't around when tapes were what we used everyday as it was the only really portable medium, and the only way to make your own compilations...
I don't miss tapes at all.
I still have a very nice Sony deck from 1995-1996. Maybe I should clean the heads and ensure the belts are in good condition and sell it to some crazy person who prefers tapes. I also have a VCR in great condition
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I've recently sold a couple of old tape decks on Ebay, both buyers were very enthusiastic and happy to pay