Quote Originally Posted by Gazjam View Post
if you want to swat that fly, Slap that stingin’ old school itch, Nakamichi or go home?
Just saying Amigo,

Yesterday’s Tech, Nak was the best?
Have an old skool Dolby S here, and a good one, in the scheme of things it ain’t all that?

YouTube music videos consistently better.
Yo dude,

That was a bit of a garbled brain fart, lol!

Anyway, yes the Tandberg, to my ears, is sonically superior to any Nakamichi I've owned - at the moment not massively so, but it's still significant and easily heard.

Yeah, I noticed you've got a tape deck (Sony, is it?) Have you tried it with quality (unopened) NOS tapes [BASF, Maxell, etc], recording without Dolby NR, and with the EQ set for Chrome? Then also playback without Dolby, and EQ set for chrome.

The formulation used on the best NOS blank tapes is much superior to anything, say, post 1992, and makes a BIG difference to the results obtained. Also, getting as much LEVEL onto the tape as possible, to reduce noise and maximise dynamic range, is hugely important - and in that respect some makes of tape can handle more before saturation.

If you put enough effort in, as outlined above, to making good recordings from digital or vinyl sources from your own system (forget all about pre-recorded shite), the playback results can be very good indeed!

Marco.