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Post Subject: UnobtainiumPosted by Paul S on: 6/13/2011
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I tried for a few years - many years ago - to put together a tape-based system. The prices kept going up on equipment and recorded tape, and program kept getting more scarce, until the "secondary market" kicked in. These were the "Bait and Switch" folks, the wannabees and the Hapless Seekers still imagining that they were going to stumble across some "undiscovered" trove for cheap, or at least - they imagined - they could count on the high-priced stuff.
All this to say, analog tape works GREAT if one owns great equipment and knows exactly what one is doing. By this I mean, you might actually record your own program, today. Unfortunately, the best of the old Master Tapes and real 1st gen. dubs of the many historical Great Performances are Long Gone, afaik. The last time I heard a real 1st dub of a live recording of a classic jazz set, all the hair on my body stood on end. I wish I could do something about it.
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