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Record players make comeback with Ikea, others pitching tricked-out turntables

M.V. Lipvig Silver badge

Re: Digital transmission?

I made the switch for the longevity, as my hearing never has been great to begin with. A lifetime of tinnitus sucks. But, I have CDs bought in the 1980s that still work perfectly today while my old cassettes went to landfill decades ago. Use a cassette and it eventually stretches and distorts, don't use it and it eventually breaks down and either becomes brittle and snaps or gets sticky and the layers glue themselves together. CDs were the recording industry's biggest mistake ever as cassettes had to be replaced regularly while CDs do not.

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