dave weil wrote:
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?

Because I'm not trying to prove that the cassette medium is poor. That was a
given in them minds of the people who were being critical of modern
recordings.

Try reading the thread title. It's firat and foremost about how mediocre
modern recordings are perceived to be.

The origional claim was that modern recordings are so mediocre that being
re-recorded on a poor medium like cassette would not further audibly degrade
them.

Please re-read the OP. It's all there!