"Triffid" wrote
It's de-emphasis. Tape a CD onto it and it'll sound just fine. Bet you
can't hear much past 14k anyway, I certainly can't. (44yo). Despite years
of under-rating by snide old farts, cassettes continue to provide a
worthwhile music source.

Worthwhile for decorators with their paint-bespattered cassette/radio
boxes that get hauled from job to job, providing background music while
they paint and plaster at exhorbitant rates and **** in their
employers' wives' sinks; yes, I'm sure.

I'm not talking Nakamichis here; I'm talking portable music
reproduction devices.

Cassette devices confirming to such constraints have inadequate
treble, even to my 33-years-old ears.

In article , Fleetie
writes

"Triffid" wrote
It's de-emphasis. Tape a CD onto it and it'll sound just fine. Bet you
can't hear much past 14k anyway, I certainly can't. (44yo). Despite years
of under-rating by snide old farts, cassettes continue to provide a
worthwhile music source.

Worthwhile for decorators with their paint-bespattered cassette/radio
boxes that get hauled from job to job, providing background music while
they paint and plaster at exhorbitant rates and **** in their
employers' wives' sinks; yes, I'm sure.

How do you know?, seen 'em do it....

I'm not talking Nakamichis here; I'm talking portable music
reproduction devices.

Cassette devices confirming to such constraints have inadequate
treble, even to my 33-years-old ears.



--
Tony Sayer

Fleetie wrote:

I'm not talking Nakamichis here; I'm talking portable music
reproduction devices.

Ooooh, by the way, I've got a Naka CR-3 that I'm about to put on ebay.
Anyone interested?

In article ,
Triffid wrote:
It's de-emphasis. Tape a CD onto it and it'll sound just fine. Bet you
can't hear much past 14k anyway, I certainly can't. (44yo). Despite
years of under-rating by snide old farts, cassettes continue to provide
a worthwhile music source.

*Most* cassettes don't go anywhere near 14kHz in practice. On a new
machine with good tape when measured, yes. After a few years use, no.

--
*Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:58:20 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Triffid wrote:
It's de-emphasis. Tape a CD onto it and it'll sound just fine. Bet you
can't hear much past 14k anyway, I certainly can't. (44yo). Despite
years of under-rating by snide old farts, cassettes continue to provide
a worthwhile music source.

*Most* cassettes don't go anywhere near 14kHz in practice. On a new
machine with good tape when measured, yes. After a few years use, no.

I find that if I monitor off-tape as I record, the top end is pretty
good. If I listen within a few minutes, the top end is still pretty
good. Within a day, though, the top end has gone dull.

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:58:20 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Triffid wrote:
It's de-emphasis. Tape a CD onto it and it'll sound just fine. Bet
you
can't hear much past 14k anyway, I certainly can't. (44yo). Despite
years of under-rating by snide old farts, cassettes continue to provide
a worthwhile music source.

*Most* cassettes don't go anywhere near 14kHz in practice. On a new
machine with good tape when measured, yes. After a few years use, no.

I find that if I monitor off-tape as I record, the top end is pretty
good.

I regularly used to flick from source to monitor when recording on my
Nakamichi 582 and was always pretty staggered at how little difference there
was. Subjectively, there didn't seem any difference to the top end.

I still kick myself sometimes for selling it.

Roy.

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:23:00 +0000 (UTC)
"Triffid" wrote:

Despite years
of under-rating by snide old farts, cassettes continue to provide a
worthwhile music source.

On what planet? I dont miss 'em one bit.

On 19 Aug 2004 01:11:33 -0700, (Paul Edwards)
wrote:

A couple of weeks ago I decided to replace my old Aiwa personal
cassette player (batteries had leaked - my fault). Easy, I thought -
I'll just nip into town and have a look in John Lewis and buy
something neat for £40 or so.

[snip]

So if you are thinking of replacing that old Walkman DO IT NOW! By
the end of the year it will be too late.

Page 862 of the current Argos catalogue (autumn-winter 2004) lists ten
such devices from three pounds up to fifty-five pounds. The following
pages have about the same number of flash memory "MP3" players, five
hard disk players (taking the three iMac variations as a single player
type) and four mini disc players.


--
Chris Isbell
Southampton, UK