I own 3 turntables, one more for 78, a Tascam pro cassette deck, a DAT, a reel to reel. I often transfer rare grooved media to CD for clients and friends. I recently played back a DAT master done by Toby Mountain and compared it to finished CD goods and as Tom suggested it was virtually impossible to distinguish the master from the commercial release...

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> On Nov 10, 2015, at 7:27 PM, Eric Cartier <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Hi ARSClist friends,
> 
> There's an interesting article
> <http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9748-what-your-music-format-says-about-you/>
> on Pitchfork about the "panoply of [format] choices" listeners have these
> days. I collect records, CDs, and cassettes, and I recently became a
> Spotify subscriber (basically because I couldn't bear to hear one more
> goshdarn Geico commercial interrupt an album, but also because I stream
> music at work and home for hours each day). I prefer rock and R&B and
> classical music on vinyl, electronic/ambient music on crisp CDs, and any
> genre (and mixtapes from friends) on cassettes. The cassette resurgence is
> real, I think, and it's cool at local shows to dig a group's set and hand a
> band member $5 or $10 for a tape at the merch table afterwards. It's a good
> format for small groups to use to get their music into fans' hands.
> 
> Which formats do you prefer? Is anyone still listening to recordings on
> ADAT, DAT, or MiniDisc? And has *anyone* ever played or owned Elcasets? (To
> be honest, I'd never heard of that format until tonight.)
> 
> In sound,
> 
> Eric Cartier
> Digital Librarian
> University of Maryland Libraries