On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:38:07 +0100, "Serge Auckland"
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"Marky P" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:34:56 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
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Well these chaps are trying to help Reel-to-Reel stage a comeback, so
anything is possible:

http://www.tapeproject.com/

Plenty still like vinyl - and endow it with much of the qualities the
testimonials there do.

Personally I always liked 1/4" more than vinyl - my ears preferred the
distortions of that over LP.

Then along came digital...

Anyone remember 'That's' tapes? They had a triangular window instead
of the regular square one. I used to buy them in the 80's as they
looked cool :-)


Marky P.

In the mid '80s, I did an evaluation on all the main brands of tape. That's
Tape came out best for MOL, frequency response and noise. It was also pretty
good on consistency batch to batch. Maxell came out next best and TDK third.
The main problem with TDK was that they kept bringing out "new, improved"
formulations that screwed up your tape machine settings. If you were Joe
Public, then it didn't matter, they did things like increase slightly the
bias requirement so you got more top, so it sounded "better". If you had an
immaculately lined-up Nakamichi, that was flat to 1dB at 20k, 1dB Dolby C
tracking and -60dB noise, it screwed things up totally.
I stuck to That's Tape. Still have a few although I no longer have the
immaculately lined-up Nakamichi. Sad in a way, but my PC does infinitely
better recordings with a lot less faf.

S.
Let's face it, it's nearly impossible to make naff recordings these
days. Early 80's music centres made abysmal recordings, especially if
they had auto level adjustment.


Marky P.