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In Reply to: I don't doubt you about the IPods posted by soundnut on November 26, 2005 at 13:09:40:
I can only wonder what an ipod sounds like, never used one and prolly never will. Not that I'm against them it's just that I find they are not necassary as I only manage to listen to 2hours of music maximum then I've normally had enough! The idea of jamming in thousands of records onto one device is precarious to say the least as if it gets corrupt in any way then wham bam no thanks mamm all your collection is lost!!! arrrghhh the horror!!!
I prefer analogue reel to reel myself but have nothing against digital at all. Infact I own 2 sony minidisc recorders that are well over 10 years old and a philips digital cassette deck that still give me incredible results. I personnly can not tell the difference in the sound quality the mini disc gives out and commercial or home made CD's. Both are great and the only reason I havn't got obsessed with mini disc yet is because commercial producers over here in the uk havn't made much of a market like the cd scene.
I have no trouble either when I shove music onto my hardrive using my built in sound card on board. I just plug in my deck to the pc then record either using musicmatch jukebox or audio cleaning labs software which is great. I use musicmatch jukebox for recording a handfull of tunes at a time whereas audio cleaning labs will record the entire contents of the tape I wish to record then asign markers for cd recognition. Absolute marvell.
I have tried this too thinking that I would get a perfect transfer from pc to tape :- connect jack plug to output of sound card at rear of pc directly to my deck but results are pretty grim!! you get nasty noises the sound is also muffled and the top end is crap! But if i burn a cd then transfer to my deck the results are impecable. So that's the way I go. I burn cd first then use cd player output to deck and get first class results and finally get my analogue sound back lol. Some people think this is total madness but the fact I simply love my tape decks love the look of them love messing with the reels and watching them turn round relentlessly and admiring the quality build and to top it all I do actually prefer the sound. Not much in it though and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a cd and my tape deck without really knowing which is playing as there is virtually no difference whatsoever unless you really listen hard to the music playing. But having done this I have concluded that I do slightly prefer the roundness of analogue as apposed to the sharpness of cd. Though my Teac X 10 could do with a dbx unit, Just a personal preference in the end so I conclude a thumbs up to digital and a thumbs up to analogue too both are great and both have advantages over each other it just depends on what you need or want in a specific environment where one day a digital deck might be more suited and another day another place an anologue deck may be a more suitable approach.
Hi-fi is that good these days it really doesn't make a lot of difference which path one takes.
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