Cheap cassette player for ripping?

[parkermike81]

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "thinkingthinkingthinking" <slo.coche@...> wrote:
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> Hmm. I can't say I'm greatly encouraged by these replies! But thanks for them anyway. I don't suppose I would ever have heard of azimuth otherwise!
> Steve
> have you thought of buying a cheap cassette walkman at a car boot sale for a couple of quid and hooking that up to an amp via the headphone socket for ripping? take a decent sounding tape and battery with you and check the sound quality before you buy,cheers mike
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Roger Carruthers <unity.gain@> wrote:
> >
> > As far as the 400 box is concerned, I have to agree that for such a large
> > number of tapes, and given that a lot of them are not exactly pristine
> > recordings, it’s a lot to expect everyone to be making azimuth adjustments.
> > There’s no guarantee that they were all recorded on the same machine, so to
> > be effective, you’d have to be doing it for every tape!
> >  It’s taken me long enough as it is to do my share, and to be honest for all
> > the difference it was making, I decided to drop the azimuth adjustments some
> > time ago. 
> >  After all, we’re a just group of volunteers doing this in our spare time,
> > not paid archivists with nothing else to do all day.
> >  I’m guessing that most of us here are of an age where our hearing ain’t
> > what it was, we’d probably rather get our hands on the recordings before it
> > got any worse!
> > Cheers
> > Roger
> > 
> > 
> > On 25/07/2009 16:49, "parkermike81@" <parkermike81@>
> > wrote:
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> > > 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
> > >> 
> > >> ____________ _________ _________ __
> > >> From: tomzero <tomzero12@yahoo. com
> > >> <http://uk.mc244.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tomzero12%40yahoo.com> >
> > >> To: peel@yahoogroups. com
> > >> <http://uk.mc244.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=peel%40yahoogroups.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:
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> > >>> >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
> > >>> >
> > >>> >
> > >>> >  
> > >>> >Anyone got an idea or opinion on the cheapest option for a cassette player
> > >>> good enough for ripping?
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