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Sony’s Elcaset promised reel-to-reel fidelity in cassette form but flopped spectacularly, while PlayTape, Tefifon, and MiniDisc joined a graveyard of brilliant but doomed formats, crushed by cheaper, simpler, and more convenient rivals.
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Faced with underwhelming SACD and BD playback, Tom Gibbs ditches discs for a digital setup that rips and streams native DSD—revealing astonishing sound quality and a future where optical drives are obsolete.