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Lovely and all but as someone who spent a lot of time and money in my youth trying to squeeze every last bit of fidelity out of the medium, it’s painful to see tape being treated like that 
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So… much…better.
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Personally, I’m listening to this:
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I heard the scratch and pop of old vinyl records, and yet I see no vinyl.
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Lovely. Thanks again.
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Either it’s the crinkles in the tape, or too many pickups feeling the Earth’s magnetic field.
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I’d never heard of Mannheim Steamroller. Are they mainly an American phenomena?
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Back in the 80’s and 90’s they were a unique sounding new age coffee house band and a moderately successful Christmas tradition, but since then they’ve, ah, lost steam.
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Ahhh that toy-robot-pencil-capstan sound! I can identify it blindfolded. It adds layers of harmonic warmth.
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They are still at it. I saw them at Strathmore a couple weeks ago. Bombastic but cheerful delivery of Xmas standards, all upstaged by visual and light effects.
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