[peel] Re: Cheap cassette player for ripping?

Mike Parker parkermike81@...
Wed Jul 29 19:46:32 CEST 2009


probably not hugely substantial but you usually pay for what you get,having said that if the tapes you have are lacking in decent sound quality i wouldn`t go overboard on cost, a cheap decent cassette walkman would suffice, sony, aiwa,something like that,cheers mike - On Wed, 29/7/09, thinkingthinkingthinking <slo.coche@...> wrote:


From: thinkingthinkingthinking <slo.coche@...>
Subject: [peel] Re: Cheap cassette player for ripping?
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, 29 July, 2009, 4:16 PM


  



Ok, well apart from the Azimuth thing, is there a substantial difference in the headphone socket output quality of an expensive deck compared with a cheap ghetto blaster?
Steve

--- In peel@yahoogroups. com, "parkermike81" <parkermike81@ ...> wrote:
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups. com, "thinkingthinkingth inking" <slo.coche@> wrote:
> >
> > 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%40yahoog roups.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
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > 
> > > >>> >Anyone got an idea or opinion on the cheapest option for a cassette player
> > > >>> good enough for ripping?
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