How good was the Nakamichi Dragon?

[Pampero]

Originally Posted by CRJCapt

Not coming back you say. I wonder.

The music business can't give away digital.

Word around the campfire is that Chad from Acoustic Sounds is looking at this "Tape" thing.

And then there's this...................

Project R2R

And this...............

Star Wars - Episode IV - A New Hope

And this............................

http://tapeproject.com/product/creed...the-poor-boys/

You know how many people told me vinyl would never come back?

There has been and remains a vibrant high end market for analog playback, so I will remind you that I entered this discussion regarding the reintroduction of high end cassette decks, not vinyl.

Now there has been modest retention of tape as a tracking source in studio. However, no major manufacturer has made a multitrack recorder in decades, so the machinery for tracking is all 20 years old or older. The same can be said for pro 1/4" and 1/2" mix down machinery. It becomes increasingly difficult and expensive to support even those that do exist. Just as important. the tape suppliers, Agfa, 3M. Ampex, are all gone so tape must be sourced from small vendors who purchased the tooling and formulations from such companies as were interested in supporting the niches that remained when the big factories folded the tents.

Whatever your or my opinions regarding the sonic virtues of top quality analog RECORDING might be, do you really believe the consumers of today are going to embrace cassettes as a re-found medium? And who pray tell, will build the machines to popularize the media again so that a vibrant library of current offerings will be available?

Nah. SACD all over again, at best.