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She’ll gets the correct azimuth automatically and will also do the same later on side B once she goes into the auto-reverse direction if you choose that option! Yes, auto-reverse too with one of the best transports ever designed and fully direct drive. You just have to insert the tape and hit the play button.
The king of all auto-azimuth adjustment decks, and the only one with certain attributes in that department, is the Dragon. Why? Because no matter where those tapes of yours were recorded, re-adjusting the playback head angle of your actual deck (azimuth) to the original’s recording head where the duplication took place, could guarantee a crispy and the best sound possible you could get out of any tape every time, unless your tape is such in a bad shape that it’s completely hopeless. I’ll immediately refer you to a machine where the azimuth could be manually or automatically adjusted. You are just looking for a nice machine with nice playback capabilities and your budget is healthy. Let’s suppose that you are just interested to play those 300 pre-recorded cassettes you are keeping since 1988 in the closet.
Every pioneer stereo master model ever made mods#
I know of a former Creek engineer, Alex Nikitin, who takes a specific Tascam model cassette deck, modify it to run at a faster speed with a handful additional mods and it’s been said that it supersedes in sound to most of the open reel decks out there, and that folks is something else. Take a Tandberg 3014 A, any Nakamichi TOL model, Revox B 215 or even a NAD 6300 and compared it to a regular reel to reel deck. The best cassette decks can even surpassed the sound of a modest 1/4 tk open reel. It has always amazed me the grade of quality and perfection the cassette tape evolved to, running at the very slow speed of 1 7/8 ips and using a 1/4 tk format in such small surface of tape! When was the last time you listened to a good recorded Chrome tape played in a high quality deck? Many people have not had this opportunity and all they remember were those tapes from dad’s car, beaten by the sun and playing in a cheap Kraco unit! How many of you have experienced a custom recorded TDK metal tape playing back on a properly aligned Nakamichi Dragon? You’ll have to hold on to your pants and I’m deeply serious. Who wants to bother now with the old tape again? Only us, the remaining tape lovers who knows where the real quality and music enjoyment is…
Every pioneer stereo master model ever made download#
No wonder why the CD took over, just to be displaced later by the stream and download services. With cassette and vinyls you need to have the proper set-up to get the most out of it and that takes time, knowledge and money! The general consumer is always looking for ease of use, flexibility and bargains. Why do you think the CD took the market like a storm? Simply because even with a “cheap” player you could obtain a fair sound quality (excellent quality for John Q Public) no matter where. Sure! When you deal with a low quality, commercial duplicated tape on a crappy shell and playing it back on an even crappiermachine which has not seen a Q Tip with alcohol on the heads since who knows when, hey!, that’s not a fair accusation! That’s not the same cassette tape myself, and many other cassette lovers know! Unfortunately, this handicap is similar to that of the Vinyl. They usually mention the hiss, low quality and bad sounding characteristics of the cassette tape. Every time I read something on the press about the cassette revival I have noticed the writer’s prejudice towards the cassette.
Many unjustified criticism has been made to the cassette media.