From: martin@mydomain.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:31:11 -0600, Mower B. Yard wrote:   
      
   > On 2/4/20 8:00 AM, The old geezer wrote:   
   >> My 8-trak died around 1975 or so......   
   >>   
   >>   
   > They were unreliable tape decks, often skipping. I had one until about   
   > 1978? There was a shift to cassette at some point but I can't remember   
   > the year.   
   >   
   Never had an 8-track - fortunately. Bought an Akai cassette deck around   
   1974. An excellent deck - just worked. Much later, lent to my sister   
   after I bought a Nakamichi BX-125, which I still have. Dunno where the   
   Akai is now.   
      
   Right now must of my music collection has been transferred from CD to   
   spinning rust using FLAC format (lossless compression) and sounds just as   
   good played through my old Qyuad 33/303 kit on big old Celestion speakers   
   - if you ain't got at least 10" woofers you ain't hearing bass notes.   
      
   My much smaller vinyl collection will be next to get rusty plus anything   
   on tape that I still want. I've kept the CDs and will keep the vinyl for   
   fetishing.   
      
      
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