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S888Wheel wrote:
From: "Arny Krueger"
Date: 5/4/2004 12:16 PM Pacific Standard Time
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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!

Well, I guess the next step in your investigation is to ask the
person or persons making the claim if this was what was meant by an
average cassette recording and then ask this person or those persons
what recordings meet the qualifications of poorness and then get a
copy or copies of said recording or recordings and copy it or them on
to cassette and do your DBTs. Then you can tell that person or those
persons whether or not they were right. It seems like a lot of work
to deal with such an odd and rare claim though.

Been there done that.

In the conference where the claim comes up fairly frequently, there was no
confusion.

Just another example of RAO flamers and trolls reading the post they wanted
to see, not the post that was posted.