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In Reply to: Tape Preamps...why? posted by Sprezza Tura on September 24, 2014 at 15:44:45:
There is a "sonic bottleneck" in most stock commercial and many professional tape transports - and it is in the playback preamplifier stage. The reasons include the switching devices necessary to implement various equalization networks. I'd also state that because the the last tape decks were designed 30 years ago, the electronics (good as a lot of them were) have not "kept pace" with circuit and component improvements since then.
Mark Levinson noticed this in the late (19)90's and offered an "audiophile" tape (head input) module for his Audio Suite that was adopted by a number of recording studios.
I opine that everyone today who has actually A/B'ed an outboard pre versus stock tape electronics will agree that there is a large improvement in the sound. Tape heads can sound different also. Interestingly, I (and others) have found that a lot of decks also make much better recordings than they play back.
Charles
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- RE: Tape Preamps...why? - stellavox 05:23:27 09/25/14 (1)
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