A Love Letter to the Cassette

Aaron Hartley
7 min readNov 5, 2020

Do they really sound that bad?

Photo by Markus Spiske from Pexels

What do you think of cassettes?

Most people write them off as an inferior form of media, remembering the days of warbled sound, too much hiss or your tape being eaten by your Walkman or boombox.

But are all of these memories accurate? Was the format really that bad?

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Aaron Hartley

Vinyl Record Collector and Reseller. Audio Gear Enthusiast. Music Nerd. Father of Twins. Cubs Fan.