On Tue, 4 May 2004 10:26:35 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

If I was trying for exceptional quality, I would have used one of the Tascam
pro decks or one of the HX decks at my disposal. I'd tune bias and playback
azimuth for the specific cassette which would be recorded and played on the
same deck as quickly as I could rewind the tape.. I'd also post-process the
recording in the digital domain in ways that would bring perceived sound
quality pretty close to that of a DAT recorder. But I didn't do that because
the claim that I was addressing hinged on the fact that cassette has poor
performance.

This seems weird to me. If you're trying to prove that a format is
mediocre by using a mediocre player and procedure, then what's the
point? Why even bother?

It's a self-fulfilling prophesy. All this proves is that a mediocre
player will produce a mediocre product. Nothing new about that...