NOW you tell me! LOL!! So much for those Shostakovich string quartets!
ScottGee1
On 2/3/06, iwert <zuiko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> if you don't play casettes often enough, quality will go back.
> The magnetic data will "bloom" through" the whole tape.
> At our national TV archives every tape is respooled at least once each
> two years I think.
>
> Iwert.
>
> Op 3-feb-06 om 17:43 heeft ScottGee1 het volgende geschreven:
>
> >
> > May not be comparable, but throughout the '80s I recorded a lot of my
> > vinyl disks to cassette tape using a high end Nakamichi deck. Over
> > the years I've gotten lazy and listen to CDs. Recently wanted to hear
> > some music that is on one of my tapes. Was stunned by how bad it
> > sounds. And yes, believe it or not, I'm still using the same
> > components as I did over 20 years ago so they aren't variables in this
> > equation.
> >
> > Data CD/DVD storage may well be superior -- or not. The big concern
> > for me is that image files that lose a few bits may be impossible to
> > load even if the technology to load and print them still exists. I
> > might be able to put up with music that sounds dull and flat due to
> > lost data, but image files are notoriously difficult to repair.
> >
> > my two lux worth/ScottGee1
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