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?

Stimpy wrote:


...but you know you want an iPod really; you just won't admit it yet
:-)

iPod is slim and effeminate, not my style.


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Tim S Kemp wrote:

iPod is slim and effeminate, not my style.

You could get a couple of deep cycle leisure batteries, an inverter and a
Revox, and strap the lot to your back...


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Wally wrote:
Tim S Kemp wrote:

iPod is slim and effeminate, not my style.

You could get a couple of deep cycle leisure batteries, an inverter
and a Revox, and strap the lot to your back...

A bit more like it if slightly old fashioned, however what I really want is
a personal DVD-Audio player, gotta work on getting that center speaker
implanted in my forehead first.



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Muqtada al-Sadr!
What a wonderful phrase
Muqtada al-Sadr!
Ain't no passing craze

It means no worries
For the rest of your days
It's our problem-free philosophy
Muqtada al-Sadr!

"Tim S Kemp" wrote in message
...
Wally wrote:
Tim S Kemp wrote:

iPod is slim and effeminate, not my style.

You could get a couple of deep cycle leisure batteries, an inverter
and a Revox, and strap the lot to your back...

A bit more like it if slightly old fashioned, however what I really want
is
a personal DVD-Audio player, gotta work on getting that center speaker
implanted in my forehead first.



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Muqtada al-Sadr!
What a wonderful phrase
Muqtada al-Sadr!
Ain't no passing craze

Hmm, I reckon it's as transient as DVD-Audio.

Roy.

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.

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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
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"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.

In article ,
Paul Dormer wrote:
*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 just pulled out a 15 year old Denon deck that's been gathering dust
for the last 10, gave it a clean, demagnetized the heads.. I don't
hear anything like the deteroriation you're talking about.

I once spent considerable time going through cassettes sent in by the
public of which some would subsequently be broadcast. And the majority had
azimuth and dolby errors. Even before the tape type and quality was
considered.

Of course they are capable of half decent performance, but not in practice
for the majority.

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In article ,
Roy roy wrote:
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.

One of the main problems with cassettes relates to azimuth errors - from a
variety of reasons including the tape itself. You don't get these - or
shouldn't - when off tape monitoring. Same with the Dolby encoding.

I still kick myself sometimes for selling it.

You'll get far better performance from a MiniDisc at a fraction of the
price. And those don't vary from machine to machine.

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