"Serge Auckland" wrote


With my own Nakamichi, I would do a full line-up every time I wanted to do
a "proper" recording, i.e. one to keep, but it became a real fag, and
wasn't sad to give up tape for PC recording.

My Aiwa has auto bias and eq., and it works too! Press a button and the
machine optimises first bias, then eq and finally level for the actual tape
that's in the machine. In other respects too it's good machine, double
capstan drive ensure low W&F and good head-tape contact. Recordings made
onto a good tape formulation are impressive.

Nevertheless I still prefer not to use NR. Frankly it's unnecessary, with a
good type-2 tape formulation the little bit of tape hiss is hardly audible,
yet even when the tape recorder is lined-up as good as it can be Dolby B is
*still* audible in operation. I found the same using Dolby B with a
carefully lined-up Revox at 7.5in/sec.

David.