have I missed the point?

[c714sap]

Hi, This is my first post..... I am NOT a new member...... but hello to everyone anyway.....

I can't help but feel a little disapointed with this forum, The only thing that I see people write about is there cool new cassette haul and so on.......

well thats all good and I am very happy for you guys, I like my blanks just as much as the next man....but surely there allot more to talk about......

how about

I was looking through a junk shop and found a cool warp records promo cassette for 50p about $.90, it's recorded on a chrome tape at 70us setting no dolby.... (cool avant garde electronica sounds) it's akiller tape and a great find...

who else has found what?


how about

It's the proms here in england - whos recorded what onto there beloved blanks??????


how about

I've found a pre recorded tape that actually dosen't sound to bad and I've found that I quite like XDR technology, it's quieter, more dynamic - generally sound better on my machine - anybody else find the same?......


how about

there are certain bands that are quite hard to find on pre-recorded cassettes, is it cos there rare..??


how about

when did 4AD records stop recording onto casssettes?


how about

i've got a great hifi system thats based around my cassette machine. To me I prefer cassettes to vinyl and other digital formats, although it's a widely mis-understood medium - I love it...


how about

I think that old cassette tape from the early 80's sounds better that the stuff used in the late 80's and early 90's. Although one would have thought that the advancement in chenmicals would have got better with time?


how about

rave tapes? made cheaply - sold for lot's back then.. sold for even more now??? I don't get it...


how about

dose anyone know of any record labels or artist using the cassette as a medium?? - here's one

http://www.lostsoundtapes.com/index.php





how about, if we only talk about blanks then there really is no point.



Cassette medium is at an all time low - didn't vinyl go through the same?

hasn't vinyl enjoyed some sort of comeback?

could it have been the bedroom DJ and dance music that was the savior, of our black plastic friend.

who's gonna save the cassette or is it doomed.....

Where are the roio cassette communities???


I thought I'd get the ball rolling or have I missed the point?



p.s

I managed to score some sealed TDK MA-X

[Marc Hugo]

Hello c714sap,

Well, you have a lot of "how abouts" there, so that's as good a reason as any to unlurk youself. Post them as new threads and I'm certain you'll stimulate lots of commentary.

I think you'll find some variety in the discussions you refer to in various parts of the site - certainly there could always be more. I must say, I really didn't explore the full site until I had been a member for more than a month.

I plan on discussing some of your threads within a thread later!!

Cheers - Marc

[mmay519]

Well, if you and other wanted to talk about a new recording one had made (your reference to the Proms concert,) I've been taping music off the internet. Deutsche Grammophon has posted some online concert videos from the Verbier Music Festival: I taped these, and in the process, managed to use some interesting tapes (a 110 minute "CoolI" tape, and a Sony CD-IT 74, for example.) Because of these recordings, I have personally discovered a new soprano, Measha Brueggergosman. I love her voice!

I also have been recording (to C120s) a radio program archived to the Internet, "Thomas Edison's Attic." Jerry Fabris, one of the curators of the Edison museum, presented an hour of Edison recordings (cylinders and discs) on each of the programs. To play the cylinders, they used the $10,000 Archeophone machine, and the results are amazing. An interesting array of music may be found on each program.

Lastly, great 1920s music may be found at www.2multiples.com/hotdance : click on the "Recordings" heading, and the "Replays" heading, and you'll find some music that is always happy and peppy, guaranteed to make the listener smile. I have filled several C90s of music from this website.

How's that?

Take Care,

Mike

[close652]

Am I reading the same forum? *eyepop*
most of the topics you wished for are already covered
join in and share your thoughts!

[NAD613]

I was talking with a guy from a tape duplication supply house where I ordered some cassettes & he commented that I must really like cassettes. When I told him why I liked them over CD-R's, i.e. ease of editing, easy to correct recording errors, etc., he agreed with me & said CD-R's are worthless if you get just one little nick on them. He also said the whole CD-R movement is getting rid of a great technology in the cassette tape.

[Des-Lab]

Marc hit a grand slam. If the site seemed interesting enough for you to join and come back for follow up visits, then obviously we are doing something right. But with your own concerns, hey like he said, why not pose the questions yourself if that's what you like?

If all you are reading is the cassette forum, sure. There's a lot of gloating and bragging about our "hauls" in there. And why not? That's what a lot of us do. The hobby needs fuel to run.

Maybe take some time to browse through some of the rest of the forums here. There are sections to talk about almost anything, whether it's your cassette deck, a tape haul, a compilation tape for your sweetie, or even your favorite recipe for quiché. We are all living people here and there's a lot of world outside the realm of tape. You want to see some varied conversation on any number of topics? Instead of waiting for someone else to post what you want, why not post what YOU want and then let everyone else add to it?

That's what it's all there for.

I really think you are short changing both yourself and the site here. I invite you to look around all of the forums. Not just one or two. And if you don't see something that you'd like to talk about, go ahead and start it. And at the same time, if you see something you don't like, nothing has taken away your ability to hit the 'back' button and move on to another topic.

[macster]

Don't take this the wrong way. But... be positive, it's easy to complain and point out faults and tear something down. (Hell, I'm a complete mess) But to be positive and build something up, well that takes a bit of our time and ourself. For me, I like checking in here to see what Mr. Linn has done "lately" it makes my day and it's fun. Also, there are opportunities to "help" someone who has a problem, "pitch in" if you can. Oh well ,I gotta go and look at my new stash of Maxell's that I won on Ebay.

M~

[Scorpion8]

I can't help but feel a little disapointed with this forum, The only thing that I see people write about is there cool new cassette haul and so on.......

Welcome! There are no limits on what we can talk about here. It started as a tape-oriented forum, and that's the primary focus, but there's plenty of room for anything that you're interested or excited about.

I've also had good success with XDR pre-recorded tapes, and have quite a few. I agree they were a step in the right direction at the time, and represent a sad demise of recording technology to be no-more.

Post what interests you. Find a spot for it, or make a suggestion for a new forum area. We're all interested in one way or another.

Welcome.

[Marc Hugo]

Hi, This is my first post..... I am NOT a new member...... but hello to everyone anyway.....

i've got a great hifi system thats based around my cassette machine. To me I prefer cassettes to vinyl and other digital formats, although it's a widely mis-understood medium - I love it...


I managed to score some sealed TDK MA-X

++++++++++++++++

c714sap!!

Cassette as the main source!! I like that. Tell me a bit about your system and your current cassette deck/s - what have you been recently listening to and (I must say, I always had a high regard for the UK hi-fi market) - whereabouts are you in Britain?

Cheers - Marc

[c714sap]

Hi everyone, thanks for your replies!

My system, well I'll start with the sources

I have a nak 581 which is a 3 headed somewhat underated machine. It has adjustable pb and rh azimuth - no tape monitor(???)... I use it everyday, I live about 20 minutes away from B&W speakers which are the UK NAK service agents......

CD player - I have an onix 33 1/3 HDCD player - it quite old and lacks the fine resolution compared with the big cd player around at the moment, but it's tone is very very exceptable.

I find HDCD very exceptable as a digital format, I would have liked the whole music cd standard to have gone that way, but microsoft screwed that up.... it's impossible to get the HDCD chips unless you have a licence from microsoft and..... very deep pockets.

Lp spinner at the moment I'm running a technics sl-1210 with a Denon DL-304.... no mods, except for an original ADC magnesium headshell which weighs 1 gram difference compared to the standard technics headshell.

I went for the denon 304 purely on mechanical properties. Mathmatically the 304 mates with the 1210 giving you a resonace of 9.6hz which is desirable (9.3hz with the ADC), (10hz being quiescent)

It's a good tracker although you have to be on it higher weight settings of 1.4g - it's a good honest cartridge.

I have a onix TU39 FM radio

I have a Cymbol DAB tuner - which out of interest was the first DAB tuner here in the UK.

pre -amp is a custom built 2 box dual mono supply. I am very lucky to have this pre amp, it was designed and built by a prominant uk hifi figure for me, this feeds in to a pair of 100 watt mono power amps, which are lively and fast to say the least... The pre-amp has had it's gain changed to suit the speaker system.... this can always be chaged later to suit differant speakers

My system drives a pair of Lowther acousta PM6A speakers, installed into the acousta 115 cabinets (modded)

do not believe that xoverless speakers need to be run from valve systems, the reason why others run valve systems is because solid state can sound rough/harsh....

xoverless speakers are ruthless in showing up anything that stands out.......

btw my lowther's love being driven by lots of current.....(oh yeah)

interconnect cable - I'm using gotham cable (very cheap) throughout the system. The gotham cable it dosen't excel at anything but it dosen't do anything wrong either.

speaker cable i'm using ofc copper (cheapest kind)

I would describe my system as - musical, very nautral sounding while being ruthless at the same time. overall I am very happy with it's negatives.

I had never thought about it but I suppose it's a very british sound.

My system dosen't really change, except cartridge changes..... , and I would like to get my hands on a nak dragon at some point.......



although most of my friends & family work within the uk hifi industry, I'm only into hifi because it gets me closer to the music...... you could consider me a muso first and foremost,, then a hifi guy.....

listening to Bon iver this grey morning here in the uk, and a bit of alela diane, my album of last year, think i'll pop david crosby - if only I can remember my name on cassette after...........

Also I would like to iterate that I like ALL musical formats, with tape being my absolute favorite - tonally...... CD being the worst (although HDCD is good), but saying this, I do love CD for what it has done.......

It has given the mass market a problem free medium... no tape noise, no clicks and pops, no cleaning or maintaining vinyl or tape heads, no storage problems......

[c714sap]

Well, if you and other wanted to talk about a new recording one had made (your reference to the Proms concert,) I've been taping music off the internet. Deutsche Grammophon has posted some online concert videos from the Verbier Music Festival: I taped these, and in the process, managed to use some interesting tapes (a 110 minute "CoolI" tape, and a Sony CD-IT 74, for example.) Because of these recordings, I have personally discovered a new soprano, Measha Brueggergosman. I love her voice!

I also have been recording (to C120s) a radio program archived to the Internet, "Thomas Edison's Attic." Jerry Fabris, one of the curators of the Edison museum, presented an hour of Edison recordings (cylinders and discs) on each of the programs. To play the cylinders, they used the $10,000 Archeophone machine, and the results are amazing. An interesting array of music may be found on each program.

Lastly, great 1920s music may be found at www.2multiples.com/hotdance : click on the "Recordings" heading, and the "Replays" heading, and you'll find some music that is always happy and peppy, guaranteed to make the listener smile. I have filled several C90s of music from this website.

How's that?

Take Care,

Mike


"hows that?" pretty good man - thanks for the resources very interesting...

did you get the 15 minute The Verve jam called "the Thaw Sessions"

It was avaliable on the NME website, but it's gone now.. it all over the net not to hard to get.... (320kb to cassette, could be worse)

also try "the bays" an electronic (jazz impro band) live band.... register(email only) and get lots of free downloads.....

http://www.thebays.com/

BBC four (TV) has some killer live music sessions that I record to tape...... pj harvey, rossane cash, radiohead, mariza, herbie hancock but to name a few/.....

[Scorpion8]

I have a nak 581 which is a 3 headed somewhat underated machine. It has adjustable pb and rh azimuth - no tape monitor(???)... I use it everyday, I live about 20 minutes away from B&W speakers which are the UK NAK service agents......

Superb! I have a Nak 581 alaso and am constantly annoyed that it's a 3-head deck with no tape/source monitor switch. I think all the circuitry is there, as it's alsmost the same deck as the 582 with has the monitor, but the 581 just has no switch. Gotta wonder how much $dineros that saved Nakamichi in that day and age since they marketed the 581 and 582 at the same time.

My 581 has issues on the calibration circutry, and that's one of my current projects to get resolved.

But welcome again. You'll fit in fine here.