[jailhouserock]

On Mar 21, 12:30 pm, "Paul Stamler" wrote:
"jailhouserock" wrote in message

ups.com...

On Mar 21, 2:06 am, "Paul Stamler" wrote:

It says that PROFESSIONAL analog equipment can sound very good.

well that's exactly WTF the OP is about, theTASCAMequipment listed
was made during the 1980's, it has 25hz- 20 khz rez. And that's what
I'm looking into getting, running at 3.75 IPS. This is studio quality
gear- you obviously don't know WTF you're talking about here.

On the contrary. 25Hz-20kHz -- at what level? 0VU? In a pig's eye, unless
you're taking +/- 10dB as your standard.


easily attainable with 3.75 IPS metal tape, where have you been ?

why the heck do you think ABC, CBS, NBC bought thousands of those
TASCAM decks throughout the 1980's ?

The BIC 3.75 IPS machine I bought, is rated close to that. You are
severely under-rating the capability of metal tape at 3.75 IPS

the old Akai 8-track cartridge decks run at 3.75, and used standard
tape, and would test out to 18-19khz top end, and were rated at
16-17khz top end in the specs

metal tape is easily worth 20 khz at 3.75 IPS, in a cassette deck

the tiny little TASCAM 424 portastudio is rated even higher than that,
+/- 3 DB


Whereas professional equipment,
like a properly-adjusted reel-to-reel 1/4" half-track machine running at
15ips, will be flat +/-3dB out to at least 25kHz at 0VU.

try stocking all those tape reels in your home, amongst your family
belongings, and see how much tape you need to record a 45 minute LP at
15 ips. You'd need a warehouse just to store it all.


The thing is, you're comparing digital to consumer crap analog, and still
come up preferring the analog. Okay, no accounting for tastes. But sometime,
if you want to hear what analog can be like, get together with somebody who
has an ATR100, or an AG-440, and listen hard.


no, I'm asking for someone with TASCAM 122 and 234 machine time
experience, who actually owned them and used them- not someone trying
to justify the money they dropped on lossy digital like you did

Peace,
Paul

you verbally attack people, than sign off with "peace" ?

why not just sign off with "war" ??