Tape Trail

Reel to reel, cassette and other analogue tape formats.

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RE: Small amount of hiss doesn't bother me

Posted by LtMandella on January 14, 2020 at 12:31:24:
[[ taking the signals off the tape heads]]

Interesting idea, especially if the deck's preamps start to give me trouble (pioneer tape deck preamps have a common problem with corroded transistors).

I have good soldering skills. Would not be difficult I think to tap into the direct head output but noise could be a problem routing to external tape head amp.

My playback system is already all tube - Transcendent Sound Grounded Grid preamp and Transcendent T8-LN OTL amp.