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RE: why the interest in cassette decks and reel to reels

Anyone remember when Telarc were putting out cassettes on TDK SA? I think it was the very early 90s and I bought a couple of their titles. I have to say that I thought they sounded much better than the CD equivalents. I played them in an entry level Nakamichi.

I've been tossing with the idea of some sort of analogue format to make copies of my pristine LPs. But as others have pointed out, even if machines can still be bought, good tape is extremely hard to find.

Interestingly enough, in terms of digital I have found that the Fraunhofer compression codec seems to offer a very "analogue tape" type of sound compared to the source it is encoding.

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