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In Reply to: Based on your definition, your anwers are so wrong that I am stunned! posted by Richard BassNut Greene on June 22, 2006 at 09:55:34:

You said "Your strange belief that vinyl records and cassette tapes have better resolution than Redbook CDs is one of the most bizarre beliefs I've ever read over 40 years as an audiophile."
It is not a belief but something that you can prove to yourself with the following recordings (among others):
Here are some sonic exercises for you:
Compare ANY of Classic Records 192/24 Bit HDAD DVD-Audio's to Classic Records 200 Gram LP versions. For an even bigger shocker compare Classic Records 192kHz DVD-Audios to Classic Records 45-rpm versions
Compare ANY Groove Note SACD to its 200-Gram LP Version.
Compare ANY Reference Recording HDCD to its PURE ANALOG LP version.
Compare ANY CD to the audiophile LP version.
Here is a recording you can compare in LP, CD and Cassette:
And this is how they rank, IMHO in sound quality
THE MISSING LINK
Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues
Sheffield Lab Direct to Disc LP S10 My Sonic Rating 9.1
THE MISSING LINK
Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues
Sheffield Lab / Nakamichi Reference Recording 70ms TDK Metal Cassette (recorded real time 1:1 directly from the analog back up tapes) RA-4S10 My Sonic Rating 9.0
THE MISSING LINK
Lincoln Mayorga and Distinguished Colleagues
Sheffield Lab / Nakamichi Reference Recording S10-CD My Sonic Rating 5.7
You said "Exactly what are you smoking to believe that any analog cassettes ever made have better resolution than CDs?"
Exercise play any CD and play the real time duplicated audiophile version (MFSL, Nakamichi, In Sync Labs, Aestheic Audio etc.) and listen for yourself, no drugs needed or desired.
"Faith is not clinging to measurements, faith is learning to listen with the heart and ears." Teresa

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Your proof is nonsense (a few audiophile label recordings & your subjective opinions = cassettes sound better than CD's? - Richard BassNut Greene 07:35:56 06/24/06 (2)
The Sheffield LP was direct-to-disc while the tape and CD were made from a back-up mastertape. Therefore the cassette tape and CD have added distortion from the tape recorder, and most likely have some additional mastering engineer processing that could have degraded the sound quality.
Your subjective opinions that a few audiophile label recordings prove cassettes generally sound better than CDs is weak evidence.
Would you have us believe that even with your VERY strong beliefs that LPs sound better than other mediums, you actually spent (wasted?) a huge amount of money on different medium audiophile versions of the same recordings to do an experiment? And the experiment is your proof that cassettes sound better than CD's?
Could there be a few exceptional cassettes and LPs that sound better than a typical CD -- sure there are. But a few exceptions don't support your generalizations about recording mediums.
You are unlikely to find anyone else to agree with you that cassettes sound better than CDs. That makes your belief very unusual and very strange.
Of course strange people are welcome in this asylum even if they title their post with a very insulting: "You don't get out and listen much do you?"
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Richard BassNut Greene
My Stereo is MUCH BETTER than Your Stereo
- Also did the try the following comparisons between LP, CD, SACD and DVD-Audio I gave you? - Teresa 17:21:42 06/24/06 (0)
  It is not a belief but something that you can prove to yourself with the following recordings (among others):
  Here are some sonic exercises for you:
  Compare ANY of Classic Records 192/24 Bit HDAD DVD-Audio's to Classic Records 200 Gram LP versions. For an even bigger shocker compare Classic Records 192kHz DVD-Audios to Classic Records 45-rpm versions
  Compare ANY Groove Note SACD to its 200-Gram LP Version.
  Compare ANY Reference Recording HDCD to its PURE ANALOG LP version.
  Compare ANY CD to the audiophile LP version.
  Listen for yourself,
  Teresa
- Disconnect from reality? I have purchased and sold over 1000 CDs - Teresa 17:07:47 06/24/06 (0)
  from all the audiophile and major labels. Even Mark Levinson says Cassettes are more musical than CDs.
  Have you ever owned a Nakamichi Cassette deck or any Audiophile cassettes?
  If not you statements mean nothing.
  Teresa

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