Return of the audio cassette

Just when you thought it was dead, the audio cassette is catching the imagination of music fans again. So what's making us pause and rewind?During its heyday, the audio cassette was easy to take for granted. It was cheap, portable and simple to duplicate but, unlike a vinyl album, never a thing of beauty. It always seemed so disposable, and was prone to unspooling in a spew of magnetic spaghetti, thus requiring laborious restoration with the aid of a pencil.But just as it is facing extinction, ...

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