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If you have to ask, the answer is no.
There's only one reason to buy a cassette deck today, imo, and that's if you have historic or irreplaceable cassette recordings. If that were the case, I'd suggest digitizing them asap. I love analog, so please don't misunderstand. But cassettes are a relatively fragile medium, and any tape deck requires care and maintenance. There are two reasons to buy a reel to reel. Again, if you have historic recordings, there's obviously no other way to play them. The second reason would be if you're interested in buying any of the new reel to reel releases now being made, such as the tape project. That's not my cup of tea, but there are certainly many audiophiles interested in that approach. |
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Vinyl is vinyl, the better your equipment and setup, the better the sound but it can get no better than the LP itself... Transfering the "BEST" you can muster out of your turntable/cartridge/phonostage/LP itself is what will be on the R2R (ignoring the variables the tape and heads will introduce). I enjoy XRCD, XRCD2, XRCD24 Super Analogue & XRCD24 Refined Digital, for the simple fact that when they are mastered, an ORIGINAL ANALOG TAPE MASTER is sourced for the production. There is the secret! XRCD process and you can read up on it here ( https://www.elusivedisc.com/xrcd24digprocess.pdf ) preserves the analog naturalness, fullness, warmth and ease of listening and is as good as digital gets IMHO. So... Recording vinyl to R2R would be great if you have an R2R and tape and want to preserve/prolong the life of your valuable or rare LP and expensive cartridge's life. But the best case scenario would be an R2R mastered from and ANALOG MASTER TAPE on a bigger/more affordable scale like some of the LPs are and most XRCDs. That would be heaven. As good as the XRCD is, I feel the R2R would beat it because you can never completely get away from the digital process when it comes to digital media. Last edited by PHC1; 02-26-2016 at 05:16 PM. |
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Thanks PHC1. After reading your note it makes sense that I not bother with this. The little research that I've done into it and it seems like it would be a total pain in my tail. Although I love the look of the antique tape machines, I don't believe that I am going to expend the energy to deal with it.
Record vinyl and digital files is keeping me busy as it is and now I have just invested in the laser displayer to play since now purchasing some laser disks. Last edited by Golucid; 02-26-2016 at 06:57 PM. |
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3rd reason to buy a Reel to Reel........Chicks dig R2R!!
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That was a long time ago... More recent picture.
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Yep, you got me with this picture!
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But I wouldn't expect reel-to-reel to achieve a following today sufficient to support more than a niche effort in either hardware or software production. We're a culture now so acclimated to convenience that the user effort required to keep a deck operating at optimum performance (tape path cleaning and demagnetization every so many hours comes to mind) would inhibit consumer acceptance at anything remotely approaching a level that would warrant major capital investment in the manufacture of reasonably priced hardware or the tapes to play on it. That's too bad. But it's reality.
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So.. begs the question.
What Cassette Deck and type of Tapes should we be getting? |
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