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Cassettes poor frequency response further proves Digital is just not an acceptable music carrier.

As by increasing resolution with longer word lengths or higher bit rates still does not get you the musicality of a well recorded cassette whose frequency response is measured at -20dB. A Nakamichi is flat from 20-20kHz at -20dB. At 0dB it only makes it to about 13kHz and many lesser decks only go to 9kHz at 0dB.

Yet cassettes are more musical than Digital. There is something that digital is not capturing at any resolution that you can hear on LPs, Reel to Reels and even lowly cassettes. It is a “human” quality we hear in live music that is totally missing from Digital. Digital gets more realistic as resolution increases but it just misses taking you there.

Maybe it is time to try to improve digital sideways instead of up. Because up doesn't get you all the way there.


"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa


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