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Importance of warm up. I hope this helps someone

I was checking a cassette I had made last month back to the original CD source for comparison. All my equipment had been on for 4-5 hours except CD player. I cued both up and the CD player was overly clear (bright) compared to the cassette made from the same source a month earlier. I thought well since this is a cassette I should expect some roll off in the highs after a period of time but not so soon. OK everybody. Im a cassette fan. I grew up with it and I know other mediums maybe are better. OK back to the warmup. I decided to let CD player warm up for 30 mins. I compared again and cassette was a perfect copy of the CD!!!. I can only figure the CD player was not warmed up. Everything else stayed ther same and was constant. I pay more attention to warmup now. I know it was important but I did not see how much until today.
blueranger

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donbellphd
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Blueranger writes:

"Most big recording studios still use analog tape. If they record in digital, the digital recording can never be improved upon. With analog they can have it digitally recorded as better digital machines come into being."

I'd ask if he is sure of the validity of that statement. Analog tape, even with half-inch at 15 IPS we used to use in the lab, has problems like print through and instablility in storage. We used to rewind our tape backwards, but even so storage was a problem. Digital tape seems much more likely for use in recording studios these days, but I don't know.

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