thom_oz
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| The dangerous world of Reel-to-Reel Tape This might be familiar to all but it bears repeating: Vintage BASF and EMItape don't sticky shed but Ampex does. The difference between these is formulation, and where the former two use whale blubber oil as a binder, Ampex used petroleum derivati... | |
| The dangerous world of Reel-to-Reel Tape @kraftwerkturbo I have a mix-tape cassette I made of college radio tracks from 1983 (dubbed from my then-new records) and it stall plays quite well! It's a Memorex Type II with Dolby B. On commercial open-reel I have a Tom Jones s/t album on Par... | |
| High quality recordings any genre to the OP (and anyone else): some recommended cds I’m listening to two boxed sets of Mercury Living Presence classical (recorded by Robert Fine onto 35mm film between 1955-70) and all the RCA Living Stereo classical titles recorded by John Pfeiff... | |
| The dangerous world of Reel-to-Reel Tape @oldschool1948 I hope you mean that the dbx box preserved the dynamics of those recordings you were capturing. Me, I wouldn't want the original dynamics altered in any way when taping (it audibly "pumps" if you push dynamic restoration more than ... | |
| Optical Phono Cartridges @richopp The DS Audio optical cart system has nothing to do with the optical in on your receiver and they are completely incompatible. Basically the optical cart replaces the magnets or coils in a traditional cart with a shutter and LED light. ... |