Yep. That’s a catch-all thread for fun and funny stuff relating to music. 
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The original 4 tracks with the transport “wheel” that popped up into the tape case were even worse. My 4-track player ate those tapes all the time. 8 tracks were a big improvement. They were great for recording albums on to. I just recorded over the track change, no planning required. Recording on to cassettes required a lot of work to minimize the blank, wasted space at the end of the side. The first commercial 8 track I bought was Paranoid by Black Sabbath. I wore that one out. I stayed on 8 tracks until Dolby support arrived for cassettes. And then came CDs. That era got pretty expensive for me. For example, I bought all of the Rush LPs, recorded them to 8 track, then to cassette, bought all of the CDs, then all of the remastered CDs, then as many bootlegs as I could find. Those were the days my friend.
So, you did not get the SACDs? 
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Actually, yeah I did, after I bought an OPPO (RIP) BDP-95 Universal Disc Player (3D Blu-Ray DVD SACD CD) for my home theater system. And, yeah, I wasted my money on a 3D TV and some mostly awful 3D blu-ray disks. The TV came with two pairs of 3D glasses, one of which was immediately chewed up by Ollie, my Chihuahua/Italien Greyhound mix who had horrible separation anxiety. He especially loved the CDs that came in LP-style paper sleeves. He also munched up two of my Miles Davis Sony Legacy box sets. The metal-bound books suffered some hefty damage, but fortunately all of the CDs remained playable, thanks to CDs starting in the center and working outward.
I still have mine, for sentimental reasons!
Hahaha! Yeah, I passed on that one. Watching movies is a social experience. Not something I do with stupid glasses on!
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The Oppo was the player to have back in my home theater days.
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Yup. It was a really good piece of kit. Mine played both SACD formats flawlessly. The multichannel format sounded fantastic on my 7.1 Definitive Technology speakers. It also played the DVD-Audio format. I had a few of those disks as well.
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I also have a few of them (and going to sell them too, just like the rest of my collection).
For some reason I found SACD sounding better than DVD-Audio (I have some albums in both formats).
I know that’s impossible, and can’t explain it…
Nope…
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8-tracks actually had better fidelity until cassettes got Dolby.
But yeah, they sucked. Consumer grade tape in general sucked. Bad.
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No audiophilic consideration or snobrobbery existed when 8-tracks first roamed the earth. Instead, freedom from turntables/needles and portability of music (freedom from AM radio in the car!) was the heady allure. There had never been anything close to the go-anywhere music playback power of 8-tracks before, and they were wondrous.
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I never liked Dolby B or C because too much of the high end was cut off when engaging it.
I liked cassettes with dbx, but unlike Dolby B, those recorded with dbx were only compatible on like technology machines. IIRC, Dolby C required like-type playback equipment.
I still have my technics cassette deck and Kenwood car head unit with dbx. Both sitting nostalgically where I last set them some 30 years ago.
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I am a hose-head and just may have to do that!
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Take off, hoser!
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I feel seen
Who was that… the McKenzie Bros.?
Yep.
Win a Bass. US Only entry
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