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RE: Deterioration of cassettes in storage?

Posted by John Elison (A) on July 25, 2017 at 20:47:48

In Reply to: Deterioration of cassettes in storage? posted by Brian H P on July 25, 2017 at 16:09:01:

I'm not a tape expert, but I'd simply try playing one of the tapes and see what happens. I'd fast-forward and rewind it first just to loosen it up. Try it and see what happens.

Rather than buying a tape deck with USB, why not buy a digital recorder? That's what I'd do. TASCAM makes some nice digital recorders that are relatively inexpensive. The TASCAM DR-05 recorder costs only $100. It has a line input to connect your cassette tape recorder and it will record at up to 24/96 resolution.

Good luck,
John Elison

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