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In Reply to: Cassettes sure can sound quite good indeed.. But.. posted by soundnut on September 10, 2006 at 08:23:10:
Quote: "But yeah, I do enjoy cassettes very much. A really good one gives reproduction very close to open-reel. I don't use the open-reel decks much anymore for that reason."That is a naive and misleading statement. It depends on the open-reel deck. Yes, there are some dogs out there, especially in the consumer realm. Yes, running them at 3-3/4 ips 1/4 track is a serious limitation and not a lot better than cassette. But you are over-generalizing. A good, properly aligned 1/2 track deck running at 7-1/2 or 15 ips will leave any cassette in the dust. Which accounts for why we never saw studios doing mastering onto a cassette deck.
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I'm comparing 3 Otari MX-5050B decks, and two Revox PR-99 decks at 7.5 IPS to Tandberg & Nak cassette decks. And I hear very little, if any difference.Let me put it this way: When I run off a copy of a very good sounding CD on my Nak using CrO2 or metal tape, & then do an A/B comparison with levels matched & both sources running in sync, I can tell virtually no difference. And that's about as good as it gets.
Open-reel should always beat cassette by a wide margin. On a well tweaked cassette deck, it's pretty close.
Open reel is another magic but cassette tape is magic, too!!!
No No. The Japanese did even master on the Metal Master cassette.
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