I recently invested in a decent used tape deck, it was $200 bucks. I put on a mixtape I was given by a friend with great taste in music when I was 15.(1985) The fidelity was terrible and the recording levels were all over the map but the sound was fucking PHENOMENAL. Huge and warm, electric. I was transported. I’m so used to the neutered computer MP3 sounds (not that I want to be…) I forgot how good it was. The songs came on like a technicolor circus;
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