A follow up,post

"Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man" (jordaneer1) 09/13/2014 at 04:08 • Filed to: None

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who in the hell would post,on craigslist that they want a cassate tape deck for a geo metro?

Your life must be quite depressing.

CRider > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man 09/13/2014 at 04:12

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Probably someone with a Geo Metro and no working cassette deck for it.

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > CRider 09/13/2014 at 04:21

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true, but to me, why not upgrade to a CD player, unless your 85 years old, or have an extremely large collection of mix tapes.

CRider > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man 09/13/2014 at 04:28

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Dude... the cassette lives.

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > CRider 09/13/2014 at 04:35

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would not have seen that, I wonder why I'm the only person who has posted in the past half hour? Anyway I'm going to bed.

CRider > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man 09/13/2014 at 04:35

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Well it's 1:30 AM on the West Coast, so most Americans are asleep right now.

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > CRider 09/13/2014 at 04:40

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yep, I live in northern idaho, so it's 1:30 am here, and I'm tired.

CRider > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man 09/13/2014 at 04:42

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But not too tired to check Oppo one last time, are you?

GhostZ > CRider 09/13/2014 at 04:43

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Aren't Cassettes digital? I mean, the data for the music that's encoded on a cassette is the same data as a CD or high quality audio file, right? Only a record would be truly 'analog' I would think, since the sound is produced by the physical shape, rather than the data encoded strip on the cassette.

E92M3 > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man 09/13/2014 at 07:06

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If only he would of checked eBay......

Sn210 > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man 09/13/2014 at 07:17

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It's for his nut and bolt restoration project. It needs to be totally correct in order to get best of show at the concours next year

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > CRider 09/13/2014 at 10:30

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I was, but I'm up now

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > GhostZ 09/13/2014 at 10:30

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From my audio engineering class lat semester, we were taught it was analog

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > Sn210 09/13/2014 at 10:31

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Lawl

GhostZ > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man 09/13/2014 at 10:31

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But why ?

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > GhostZ 09/13/2014 at 11:05

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becuase if you make a copy of a copy, the copy of a copy, is not a good of quality as the copy, nor is the copy as good as the orginal.

GhostZ > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man 09/13/2014 at 11:20

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I know that, but it doesn't answer my question. I want to know why Cassettes are considered "analog" and not digital.

I thought analog vs digital had to do with whether sound came from movements of physical parts (analog) or reading of data (digital). An analog watch uses gears and a spring to display and track time, a digital one uses a sensor and an electronic display.

I figured that means that Cassettes were digital because they had encoded data being read by a sensor and uses electrical signals, rather than physical moving parts, to produce sound. That seems very digital to me.