What are you listening to?

[rlovison]

More tape spooling.

It's hard to believe any quality of sound came from 0.15 inches of tape running at 1 7/8 ips.

 

[d6jg]

More tape spooling.

It's hard to believe any quality of sound came from 0.15 inches of tape running at 1 7/8 ips.

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You could tell it was a cassette as soon as you entered the room. Looking back it was a ridiculous idea that any device that played them could in any way be described as HiFi

 

[d6jg]

♪ Playing Reach Out by Sleater-Kinney from The Center Won't Hold (180g Vinyl) (2019) (Local • 2846kbps VBR, 24bit, 96kHz, -4.27dB, FLC)

 

[MrA]

 

[rlovison]

You could tell it was a cassette as soon as you entered the room. Looking back it was a ridiculous idea that any device that played them could in any way be described as HiFi

At least you didn't have the clicks and pops of vinyl.

 

[slartibartfast]

At least you didn't have the clicks and pops of vinyl.

You did if they were home taped from records I only ever had one pre-recorded cassette, Elton John's Greatest Hits received as a Christmas present and it didn't sound great. You could never trust the EQ and Dolby on pre-recorded cassettes to match your deck

 

[rlovison]

You did if they were home taped from records I only ever had one pre-recorded cassette, Elton John's Greatest Hits received as a Christmas present and it didn't sound great. You could never trust the EQ and Dolby on pre-recorded cassettes to match your deck

Home taped sounded great if you did it on the first play of the record and not the 30th and only played it on your personal machine.

 

[slartibartfast]

Home taped sounded great if you did it on the first play of the record and not the 30th and only played it on your personal machine.

Borrowed records were more likely to have clicks and pops

 

[Skull]

 

[QuarryHunslet]

More tape spooling.

It's hard to believe any quality of sound came from 0.15 inches of tape running at 1 7/8 ips.

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It can do when played on a suitable cassette deck, and yours should be suitable being a Nakamichi.

I have well over 100 prerecorded cassettes, and they sound great played on my Nakamichi CR-3.

 

[QuarryHunslet]

You could tell it was a cassette as soon as you entered the room. Looking back it was a ridiculous idea that any device that played them could in any way be described as HiFi

Did you never own a decent cassette deck?

 

[Skull]

 

[Skull]

 

[d6jg]

Did you never own a decent cassette deck?

Define decent. I had various. The first was rubbish but over time I upgraded and eventually to a mid cost Sony i.e would be £500 in todays terms

 

[QuarryHunslet]

Define decent. I had various. The first was rubbish but over time I upgraded and eventually to a mid cost Sony i.e would be £500 in todays terms

I can't really answer that, but know that Nakamichi were always very highly regarded for their cassette decks.

 

[rlovison]

It can do when played on a suitable cassette deck, and yours should be suitable being a Nakamichi.

I have well over 100 prerecorded cassettes, and they sound great played on my Nakamichi CR-3.

In my first post I was trying to make the point that even on such a small tape width and spooling at such a slow speed, the manufacturers managed to get an amazing sound quality from a cassette and it can be hard to believe that they did. I don't own many prerecorded tapes but Graceland was one of the better ones.

 

[Intruder]