[78-L] The audio casette is making a comback

[bradc944 at comcast.net]

Kind Sirrah Mr Lennick:

While I have a Nakamichi sitting around here somewhere (faulty logic control board), I find that my Kenwood KX-5530 with auto-reverse-that-actually-works is more than suitable for any cassette transfers-to-be-made.

Reel? Different story :) Love it, esp. the 2-track stuff. My Otari craves 2-track goodness, in the good, moral way :) Even crap Ampex dubs of pre-recorded tapes can be made to sound good.

Non-sequitor: I was at my local library today, and guess what I found? A Naxos Nostalgia CD of "Greatest Hits of 1930". And who did the transfers? Some chappie by the name of David Lennick. Brilliant liner notes, by the way, and EXCELLENT discog info. I'll be using that as my standard from now on. Haven't changed needles in the crank-up CD player yet, maybe later tonight I shall sample the audio goodness.

BC

----- Original Message -----
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:46:08 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [78-L] The audio casette is making a comback

I haven't had a cassette player in the car since who knows when..there are 
still a couple of working players (and a good boom box) around the house for 
when something needs to be transferred. But I also have sets of OTR from Radio 
Spittoons and a few books-on-tape that have had as much attention as my laserdiscs.

dl

On 10/20/2011 12:36 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> A good high end cassette deck (like a Nakamichi Dragon for example) with type 1 (ferric) low noise tape adding Dolby B or C if you wish can sound pretty good. Chrome tapes can sound even better. But since the cassette stereo I had in my truck died I replaced it with a CD deck&  haven't recorded on cassettes ever since nor do I collect prerecorded cassettes. Other than playing back cassettes of classical LP's I borrowed from the library to me the format is dead&  can stay dead. Prerecorded cassettes? Forget it. I'm not interested in those.
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> Open reel is a different story as I like to record classical music from FM on 2 track stereo at 7.5 ips with older Ampex&  Scotch tapes like the Ampex 600 series of tapes plus the Scotch 100&  some of the 200 series. I also collect early 50's 2 track stereo (inline) prerecorded tapes played on my 2 track deck as well as the quarter track tapes sold later in the stores played on a quarter track Pioneer thats used for playback only. Sure open reel is a dead format but I still like it.
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