Vicki Powys wrote,
>Without getting technical, the main thing that I've found a problem with
>compact cassettes is that the sound quality of each recorded tape
>deteriorates over time, e.g. you get print-through and other problems. The
>way you store the tapes has some influence, cool and dry is the best way to
>go. But if you plan to transfer your recordings to CD, then storage of
>recorded cassettes will be less of an issue. Probably best just to transfer
>the entire cassette to CD. You can extract any sequences that you want,
>later.
Getting technical, the problems with cassettes are legion. They -are-
more reliable than DAT, but the quality difference with DAT is so
great that we're seduced into going out on a limb. No shame in
carrying a cassette back-up machine.
Compared to any digital medium, a cassette recording -at best- has
unreliable speed, wow and flutter, higher noise (hiss), reduced low
frequency response, higher distortion, modulation noise, and limited
high-frequency headroom.
It's difficult to match alignment between different cassette
machines. When I copy cassettes into my workstation, I adjust the
alignment of the playback machine to match the tape as well as I can.
Noise reduction (Dolby) helps a lot but good performance depends on
record-playback alignment being matched.
Just a few reasons why I'm so happy recording on MDs!
-Dan Dugan
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