[peel] Cheap cassette player for ripping?

[parkermike81@...]

i know were gratefull for clinical rippers going to the trouble of de- fungusing old tapes and i suppose the obvious question without sounding critical as i dont know the answer is would some of those 400 or 500 box tapes have sounded better if indeed all rippers used those functions that robert mentions if they had them? i guess there`s only so much can be done a bit like when you can use a phillips screwdriver to tighten or loosen the capstan drive/pinch roller tape heads on the deck[ i might have got the terminology wrong] to make certain tapes sound better that were recorded on other decks[to be done only if you feel confident the whole mechanism is not going to disengage itself],or even playing some tapes while ripping in reverse function [< playback mode] like i  do can sound better rather than forward function [> playback mode]obviously mono or bad sound drop outs with seriously damaged tape is not likely to be improved upon i guess. 

--- On Sat, 25/7/09, Robert Ward <r0bertward@...> wrote:


From: Robert Ward <r0bertward@...>
Subject: Re: [peel] Cheap cassette player for ripping?
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, 25 July, 2009, 2:16 PM


  




If you're not ripping from the same machine you recorded them on (which you're not, obviously), you might want to get one with a "Play Trim" or "Azimuth Alignment" function on it

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From: tomzero <tomzero12@yahoo. com>
To: peel@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Saturday, 25 July, 2009 2:47:34
Subject: Re: [peel] Cheap cassette player for ripping?

  
i don't know how much you want to spend, but you can get a fairly decent nakamichi on ebay these days.

--- On Fri, 7/24/09, thinkingthinkingthi nking <slo.coche@bluebott l e.com> wrote:

>From: thinkingthinkingthi nking <slo.coche@bluebott l e.com>
>Subject: [peel] Cheap cassette player for ripping?
>To: peel@yahoogroups. com
>Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 5:29 PM
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>Anyone got an idea or opinion on the cheapest option for a cassette player good enough for ripping?
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