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Date: Mon Mar 5, 2007 2:12 pm ((PST))
Thank you all for your help. A most stimulating discussion.
Tom Sheridan
Toronto, Canada
--- In Klas Strandberg
<> wrote:
>
> The biggest problem I found was modulation noise - that the tape
> vibrated against the head.
> You got a fairly low frequent noise, or hiss, around every sound,
> many times people blamed the Dolby for it and called it "Dolby-
pump".
> Some birds were impossible: A pure whistle could sound like the
tone
> from a flute + the sound from the flute players lips.
>
> Klas.
>
> At 18:41 2007-03-04, you wrote:
> >Mine always went at least as high as 10k... sometimes 14k.
> >
> >Client was in transferring original cassettes, on the machine that
> >recorded them (live piano) and they were solid up to 12-14k and
then
> >dropped off to nothing except hiss. Premium cassettes claimed to
be 20
> >- 20k but I don't see much over 15k ever. I use SpectraFoo while
> >transferring to find this out.
> >
> ><L>
> >
> >Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio =95 415-883-2689
> >
> >On Mar 4, 2007, at 5:42 AM, Marc Myers wrote:
> >
> > > I've wondered about this. How well did cassettes ever capture
higher
> > > frequencies?
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