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Where does that leave the potential of magnetic tape for delivering good sound? There is physical contact but it is fairly constant in nature....
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I dunno if any of this applies to you guys and radio, but by way of analogy, when I had a tv, I might watch (and enjoy) films that I certainly wouldn't bother with if I had to shove a tape of the same into the VCR that evening.Likewise, I've fou...
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Isn't the bulk of the "digital" classical music currently available originally recorded, and/or transferred, and/or archived in 16/44? It has been my understanding that most of the current "upsampled" stuff is actually scrambled from what was (at o...
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Romy,About 6 mo's ago I purchased a Teac X7R becuse the man who ran the head mfg facility in Japan is still making heads and has new pinch rollers for the machines too. This is the X7R,X10R and X100 and X2000 series. The R stands for auto reverse so ...
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Since the last week, when I put the left 6-way Super Milq in duty I am hardly wiling start working on the right channel. I left it as is for a while, screw it.. I am too lazy and not in a mood to do it for now… I found recently a space to put my tape...
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I have tried a lot of tape recorders and different tapes of different quality, thanks to a few close friends. There is the Tape Project tapes which quality is always very good, and although the selection of music is very good they have a limited cata...
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Romy, what you describe is exactly what motivated my own decision. This was the main thing that bugged me when listening between master tapes (and careful 1st dubs) and the LPs made from them, meaning the way the LP (and presumably the cartridg...
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I wanted to compare a LP pressed at 33 1/3 and 45 RPM of the same music..To listen for any pinched effect or inner groove compression & distortion..Two identicle turntables and arms plus switching at phono preamp gave me the tool needed for this ...
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I look at it this way, it is all about your original source of prerecorded crap. Most of the problems with speakers are not the speakers it is the source of music the record album and the cd. Everyone is out of touch with the source, if you want good...
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[quote user="manisandher"]I received three Reference Recordings discs yesterday - 'Exotic Dances from the Opera', 'Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances' and 'Dick Hyman Thinking of Bix'. I'm surprised that I actually like these (musically speaking) more tha...
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Romy's thread makes for sad reading. I assume from all that I have seen that most of the "high res" files were taken from 16 bit Cd files or processed at that rate at some point in the processing chain. There are probably a handful of conscientious e...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Perhabs, wlowes. Might I ask you: when you refer to “sonic improvements”, “brought more life to the music”, deep quiet background and etc then what do you mean? What I am trying to say is that your rational might be logica...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
BTW, in 2 days the very same concert will be broadcasted buy different station live-to-tape. It would be VERY interning to see what change to sound it will be. I do not know if it was the problem with recording or the pr...
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We have tested live recordings against live sound, a recording of a jazz singer was done on Reel tape on an Ampex ATR modded machine with Fluxmagnetics heads etc. The microphone used was the legendary Telefunken stereo tube mic. no post producti...
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Music does not only expose to musical ideas and permit to share human expirences but also us it reconstructs our own experiences. How many times we hear one or other piece of music and refer our attention to the moments when we first time heard or th...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, what, the WGBH did broadcasted the M6 live-to-tape with…horrible sound. Did they destroy the whole sound purely intentionally? The finals final blow however was not screwed up – the graph even does not look as the...
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Hi Panos,Romy asked me for a sanity check on your stated performance limits for your SE OPT's. It is good to see someone paying some attention to what is in the Radiotron Designers Handbook for high performance coils. What you are doing, winding five...
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I just don´t see Romy running around trying to satisfy a customer and his wife with the color selection of the carpet! I am sure you will be great at whatever you set your mind to, but try to stay on your comfort zone.Lets say you decide to make...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] First question:
With the 1.5 gallon rear chamber, the resonance is 700Hz With the basket sealed by tape (very small rear chamber), the resonance is 49Hz Assuming there was not a typographical error, from this we...
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Romy, it sounds like you are well into this, already. We used to use extremely sheer silk with our "secret" doping formulae. The key is to keep it as thin and flexible as possible. Today, I would look for resin/glue with "fibers" in it to bridge t...
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Why did I drag this out for so long? The WT Reference arm I use has easily adjustable VTA, and for some time I suffered using a loose L-shaped Allen wrench for adjustments, with no way to keep track of how high the arm was set. Although t...
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Well, I'm not convinced.First things first. Yes I don't know specifics of FM recording, but what I know in general about recording is enough for me to conclude that sound processed threw converters A-D and back D-A is going to be ... well, processed....
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My first choice would be a Sony SACD recorder with storage in SACD format. Quite expensive, but I would not use an expensive Sony playback device. Their early models (still available new on ebay) were designed to show how much better than regular CD ...
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Using the AD/DA and employing those Dominus cables I could not believe lived without the tape loop. Plugging Pacific into the loop I in fact save one spare cable and got assurance that I would never will move/plug/unplug my AD anymore. I feel like w...
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Yes, the theoretical static from the slipping ferromagnetic tape it was always that did not like in the tape idea but I always thought that the effect, if it ever take place, would be absolutely negligible, partially considering that I use conductive...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It was exactly what I was experimenting for many times since 2005 and I came to exactly opposite finding. I am not able to make neither LP, tape or CD to copy in digital that would sound like original source. I am able to ...
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Perhabs, wlowes. Might I ask you: when you refer to “sonic improvements”, “brought more life to the music”, deep quiet background and etc then what do you mean? What I am trying to say is that your rational might be logical and lucid but I wonder if...
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The title of this thread would appear laughable for anyone who practices audio more than a week. This is as beaten subject as Tubes vs. SS or Mosfet vs. Bipoloar. However, with all my awareness about the popular Analog vs. Digital debate I with a...
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As I said: most debates on the subject that I ever heard so far are not accurate representation of Analog vs. Digital dilemma. The same as the discussion in this thread about the “natural continuous process”, the “discrete process” and the “brain re...
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Sounds very convenient Romy.I'm very interested in hearing your thoughts on the quality of the tape loop - did you go for a buffered I/O? I'm even more interested in hearing your thoughts on 88.2KHz vs. 176.4KHz...Mani....
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