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In Reply to: RE: I love CDs posted by audiozorro on March 21, 2012 at 07:06:18
"As for sound there was never any comparison between CDs and cassette tapes"
Good cassette tapes on a good cassette player can beat most CDs when it comes to musical sound. They also can have better high frequency extension.
While I agree that cassette tapes are fragile (old ones can become horribly fragile) it is not the case that CDs are indestructible.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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"Good cassette tapes on a good cassette player can beat most CDs when it comes to musical sound. They also can have better high frequency extension."
Cannot agree here....... Although cassette recordings have the advantage of no active digital conversion and zero RFI, even when using a top-of-the-line Tandberg or Nakamichi cassette deck, the HF extension is awash, the dynamic capability is limited, and the noise floor is a good 20 dB higher...... Relative to CD.
Highs to 23 K on my Nak CR-7 and without typical glare from CDs of the 1990 era. (CDs have to roll off (apodize) below 20 K for them to sound decent.)
Cassette S/N ratio (especially with metal tape and Dolby C) is more than adequate for most acoustical music, and not that different from 14 bit digital sound typical of that era.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
I'm getting good to great recordings straight from my Sony XDRF1-HD tuner to a Teac AD600 cassette/CD combo with fresk TDK SA-90 stashed from many years ago. I'm getting equally as good to great recordings from vinyl or YouTube (source-dependent) to 24/196 to schiit bifrost to the same cassette deck. I have a huge cassette archive that is well-stored (cool and dark), and I'm constantly finding new-old stock at the thrifts. I make compilation tapes, then burn CD's with a pro recording machine and get great results. This stuff is plenty obscure so for the small tradeoff in SQ I have my dearest rarest classic rock nuggets analog-preserved, then digitized for another layer of archival safety.
Freedom is the right to discipline yourself.
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