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NAD613

07-02-2008, 01:27 PM

Last night I was listening to a cassette I made on an Akai GX type II cassette. It didn't sound quite right. In fact is sounded kind of bad. I started to worry, thinking that those Akai tapes were too good to be true & they were ruined after only a few plays. Then I looked at the label I wrote for the tape when I made it some weeks back. I recorded the tape in Dolby B & was playing it back with my cassette deck on Dolby C. When you do that, the tape sounds like it's muffled. Hitting the Dolby button to "B" solved the problem & the tape sounded fine. I just have to remember to pay attention to the labels I write.

MacGyver

07-02-2008, 03:56 PM

Mr. Lin

07-02-2008, 04:49 PM

any particular reason why you don't just record everything in DOLBY C? personally, i don't like what DOLBY does to the sound when it's active, so i simply record in C and then just leave DOLBY off when played back...

Aren't you supposed to play the tape back with what type of Dolby you used while recording onto it?

NAD, I will be seriously ticked off if those Akai tapes turn out to be bad, although I really doubt that will be the case. Especially since I just got six more boxes of them today.

NAD613

07-02-2008, 05:12 PM

any particular reason why you don't just record everything in DOLBY C? personally, i don't like what DOLBY does to the sound when it's active, so i simply record in C and then just leave DOLBY off when played back...

Because I was trying out the Akai GX cassettes when I first got them to find out how they sounded with different kinds of NR. Plus, I have a Teac A-103 that only has Dolby B.

Just wondering, why do you record in Dolby C & then playback without the Dolby C on? Dolby doesn't do any good if you don't playback using it. You get a lot more hiss that way if you record with it & don't playback with it. If you want more high end, just turn the bias control counter clockwise when recording.

Mr. Lin

07-02-2008, 05:47 PM

Because I was trying out the Akai GX cassettes when I first got them to find out how they sounded with different kinds of NR. Plus, I have a Teac A-103 that only has Dolby B.

Just wondering, why do you record in Dolby C & then playback without the Dolby C on? Dolby doesn't do any good if you don't playback using it. You get a lot more hiss that way if you record with it & don't playback with it. If you want more high end, just turn the bias control counter clockwise when recording.

This is what I was saying.

I wish I weren't limited to Dolby B and no bias controls, but that'll change soon enough.