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In Reply to: RE: Analog, Cassette, R-R, and Co-mingling of Such posted by Dave Pogue on September 11, 2013 at 09:39:03
This is the sentence which is potentially misleading to folks of lesser intellect than you and I:
"Besides, the resulting open reel tapes via an Otari MX5050 BII2 and deHavilland 222 tapehead preamp sound better (well, to me) than the original cassettes. "
The only reason I haven't sent my team to your house to set you straight is that you included the disclaimer "well, to me". ;)
But then you went and said this: "I do find it amazing how much the latter sounds like the former."
Well, geez, Dave. Which is it? Better, or similar? I would hope "similar", even "nearly identical". That would indicate that the r-r machine/tape isn't imparting a new sonic signature/tonal quality onto the inputted audio signal.
Btw, I love your TV programs. ;)
:)
Follow Ups:
First, I'm not that David Pogue. There even may be MORE than two of us in the known universe.
Second, in the first quote you, um, quoted, I was speaking only of how the sound compared when I dubbed one of my 1970-era cassettes from the Nak BX-300 to the Otari MX5050. BTW I dubbed one of these at 15 ips, the rest at 7 1/2 ips, all 2-track. In other words how the original cassette sounded to me on the Nak compared to how its dub sounded to me on the well tuned and serviced Otari. I know that's repetitious but I wanted to be sure you got it :-)
I was clearly not comparing the sound of the Otari/deHavilland combo playing the best imaginable 15 ips tape to the sound of the Nak playing a cassette. I made THAT comparison in the second quote. Interestingly, I had a flock of people here Sunday, three of whom wrote down the specifics of a commercial cassette I played for them on the Nak, so they could buy the CD of it if it's out there somewhere.
BTW, looked up the measurements of my Nak in an old High Fidelity magazine review published at the time the deck came out (1985). Seems it's essentially flat from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, without Dolby, on your preferred Type 2 cassettes. And whatever we say about how High Fidelity and Stereo Review didn't know how to listen, they sure did know how to measure stuff like frequency response.
For those of us curious enough to try?
big j.
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
"Oracle" by Michael Hedges on Windham Hill.
Another group fave was "Times Like These" by a Gary Burton group (Michael Brecker, Marc Johnson, John Scofield and Peter Erskine) which I remember as very pleasant but not anything special from a sonic standpoint, until I got the Nakamichi.
Ian Tyson's "COWBOYOGRAPHY" cassette that was released in 1987 is excellently recorded as well, if you can find it.
My audiophile friend was very surprised of how good Tyson's cassette sounded while playing it on my Nakamichi RX-505 couple of nights ago.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
Just received my 440A today. Perhaps I could listen to these on there together a measure of its sound.
big j.
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
"First, I'm not that David Pogue. "
lol I know, you're the one in DC, he's the one in NY. Still, it was fun to bring it up again, just to get your reaction. :)
"Seems it's essentially flat from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, without Dolby,"
Wow, you just ruined many a Studer A80 owner's day. ;)
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