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In Reply to: cassettes posted by PanzerVI on November 22, 2006 at 02:01:26:
Hello, I was cruising e-bay last night and found something you might be interested. I found a seller "vinylpaddy" in Dingle, Ireland who appears to have one of the most amazing classical cassette collection for sale. He claims most are near mint or sealed. Prices seem OK. Suggest you check it out. In reference to your comment about taping off of FM, it all depends on the radio station. I live in a suburb of Chicago and am able to listen to one of the best classical music stations in the country, WFMT, however, the have changed ownership since the old days and station quality is not quite as good, still OK. In the early 80s I taped over 100 cassettes that I still listen to today. BEWARE! If your classical station is broadcasting in HD and you have an older tuner, you will get noise artifacts when listening in stereo. Good Luck. Happy Turkey Day.
Follow Ups:
Bless you, oldglide. I use a TU-S9, don't know
about the HD part, but I'll call. With price no object,
and a vintage Pioneer or Tandberg deck in mind, what
would you consider the best tape to use?
Hi Panzer IV (proud successor to the IV no doubt....what about a Tiger!!)I would say, with a Tandberg 3014 if you can find one - or say a Pioneer CT-550S (try and get one used from the UK - the nice Pioneers of the late 90s were sold there) then an affordable high quality tape remains the Maxell XLII.
If you're in the US - you can normally get them from internet sources for $1.00 each if you get 10 or more. I also like the wonderful XLII-S although would possibly not use them for FM recordings. XLII more than suffices. If you're in the UK - the TDK SA - where I am in RSA - either the TDK SA, SKC CD-Super-Chrome or TDK AD.
Oldglide - you said that classical music is less popular thesedays - I'm sorry to hear that - could it be true? Tell us more - sounds a bit disturbing.....
All the best - Marc
Any radio station worth it's salt is now streamming on the net. Great classical stuff from the UK especially on the BBC along with music you will never hear in the US, but that's another story for another time. The down side, compressed, not a lot of dynamics. Good for casual listening, serious listening, IMHO, I don't think so. As far as the demise of classical music. I will post some comments in the general forum soon, watch for them. See ya.
Reminds me of a comment I left here two years ago regarding
my first experience with the TU-S9. It sounded so good,
I forgot the TV programs coming up and just listened for two hours.
Actualy sounded better than 70% of my CD'S. With a roof
antenna I think the reproduction would be quite satisfactory.
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