Re: Akai blank cassette question

CLM in ND <camarvel8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
: Thanks for all the replies.  I'm going to buy some Akai tape, but also
: a box or two of TDK as well.

: I have a lot of music on hard drive, but I want a backup on a format
: in case something should ever happen to my computer.  With CD-R's,
: you're too reliant on the computer, not nearly as interesting to make
: a disc as it is a tape, & I'm still not convinced of their long-term
: durability.  I've heard too many stories of people not being able to
: play CD-R's just a year or two after having burned them.

: Everything I'm dubbing onto cassette I'm also going to put on Minidisc
: as well.  Cassettes & Minidisc are much better for recording than
: burning CD's, and are a lot more fun IMHO.  Both formats I like a lot
: & have never had an issue with either of them. 


if you're determined to archive your music on an obsolete, lossy, 
fragile medium with a shrinking base of equipment that can play it, why 
not go for the ultimate, and record out to wax cylinders?

	-- Andy Barss