Nop. As with Audio cassette the pre recorded cassette tape/Video tape used was of poor quality.Originally Posted by Barry
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Nop. As with Audio cassette the pre recorded cassette tape/Video tape used was of poor quality.
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Oh yes, the *only* valid comparison that can be made is when making your own recordings with the hardware concerned. Pre-recorded anything was pish.
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Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
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'Home Taping is Killing Music' remember that one? more like the shite quality tape we sold you in your pre recorded cassettes Killed the music.
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Of course, we had one and the quality was still inferior to DVDs.Questionable on the finest examples of Betamax tapes and players (yes, remember those)!
Bulkier is only of concern to those who must worry about such things... Does 'bulkiness' make you want to rip all your vinyl to hard-drives and sell your LP collection?
Marco.
I have over 200 DVDs, were they video tapes they would take up double the space - space I need for books and more CDs
Video tapes can suffer from stretching, snapping and getting tangled around the heads on ejecting.
No, I wouldn't want to rip my vinyl collection to a hard drive - I would loose the art work and sleeve notes, and the great smell of vintage vinyl! As well as the ritual of cleaning the record and stylus.
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I see Digital Files & CDee as pure convenience nothing else. Smaller, Cheaper, Easier. The whole enjoyment of the hobby has gone imho. unwares to some its not just about listerning to the music.
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Irrelevant to me - I never made any video tapes, nor had any interest to do so.
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Fair enough. We'll have to agree to differ, then
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Im refering to the tape used in the pre recorded tape as being inferior to the higher quality you could buy with blanks. Gave tape play back machines/Media a bad name.
Only the same as someone saying records are rubbish & no where near as good as CD based on their experience with a bad quality Record player/Cartridge.
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