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There's been too much of it going on around here lately...
Here's a couple of points:On quite a number of occasions, I have made tapes from LPs for people (they usually no longer have turntables), who, after playing the said given tape, tell me "I can't believe how good that tape sounds. It sounds way better than my CDs. What gives??"
The real reason is, with a pretty good tape deck (it doesn't have to be a Nak, but reasonably good), a good phono stage & turntable, you can make an excellent sounding tape---which, most importantly, can be played with excellent sound on even a mediocre tape deck.
A well recorded cassette tape replayed on an average tape deck will sound better than an good sounding CD played on a $200-500 CD player.
Period. I have yet to a hear a CD player in this price range to beat the sound of a tape deck...recorded from a good deck & source.R2R is certainly better than cassette...but the most amazing thing about cassette was what it ended up being capable of doing...but was never intended to do...cassette was designed as a compact, easy to use method to record voice...it was never intended to record music when it was developed.
Put simply: Cassette in the end greatly exceeded what it was originally designed to be able to do...compared to CD, which has never lived up to what it was originally claimed to be able to do (you know, "perfect sound forever").
Anyway, my 2 cents worth from an analogue type.
Regards,
Grant.
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Topic - I'm Getting Sick & Tired of this Cassette Bashing Around Here. - Grant99 18:36:08 09/08/06 (29)
- Re: I'm Getting Sick & Tired of this Cassette Bashing Around Here. - Inmate51 13:09:13 09/10/06 (1)
- ...sound that is far better than CD ! TDK MA ! - Flex 05:51:54 09/12/06 (0)
- Cassettes sure can sound quite good indeed.. But.. - soundnut 08:23:10 09/10/06 (7)
- Re: Cassettes sure can sound quite good indeed.. But.. - Flex 05:55:31 09/12/06 (2)
- I have. Many times. - soundnut 06:01:12 09/12/06 (1)
- I forgot: - soundnut 06:14:04 09/12/06 (0)
- Re: Cassettes sure can sound quite good indeed.. But.. - Inmate51 10:14:35 09/11/06 (3)
- naive and misleading statement. - soundnut 06:20:25 09/12/06 (1)
- Re: naive and misleading statement. - Flex 13:49:54 09/12/06 (0)
- Re: Cassettes sure can sound quite good indeed.. But.. - DANDZIO 16:45:22 09/11/06 (0)
- Not with a Nak... - Jim Smith 10:49:00 09/09/06 (3)
- A Bank of 50 Decks? That must have been quite a sight! - Grant99 17:58:31 09/11/06 (2)
- Re: A Bank of 50 Decks? That must have been quite a sight! - Jim Smith 18:37:34 09/11/06 (1)
- correction... - Jim Smith 18:42:38 09/11/06 (0)
- Re: I'm Getting Sick & Tired of this Cassette Bashing Around Here. - Dan 09:59:43 09/09/06 (4)
- Re: I'm Getting Sick & Tired of this Cassette Bashing Around Here. - doity 16:49:45 09/09/06 (3)
- Re: It's Your turntable among other things - Taz 20:50:43 10/08/06 (0)
- not true at all - docw 09:34:01 09/11/06 (1)
- Re: not true at all - doity 12:13:02 09/11/06 (0)
- Here I agree 100% and I have both a Nakamichi Cassette deck and a Dokorder Reel to Reel - Teresa 06:28:06 09/09/06 (0)
- Re: I'm Getting Sick & Tired of this Cassette Bashing Around Here. - stickwork 22:18:49 09/08/06 (7)
- I figured this Forum needed a little excitment - Grant99 06:16:10 09/09/06 (6)
- I own... - docw 09:45:58 09/11/06 (1)
- Re: I own... - Adrian S 14:17:19 09/11/06 (0)
- Re: I figured this Forum needed a little excitment - stickwork 11:28:01 09/09/06 (3)
- Re: I figured this Forum needed a little excitment - DaveInVA 12:49:57 09/12/06 (1)
- Now if I could only.... - DaveInVA 12:51:41 09/12/06 (0)
- Re: I figured this Forum needed a little excitment - Grant99 18:01:06 09/11/06 (0)
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