In October of 2019, I wrote an article on probably the single most important link in the long chain of production steps required to bring a classic analog master tape into our digital music world. The importance of maximizing the fidelity of the tape playback using a state-of-the-art reproducer and associated electronics cannot be overstated.
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An old idiom states, “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link”. As audiophiles, we are constantly striving
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During the recent T.H.E. Show I told several attendees that I intended to write a post comparing fidelity vs. sound.
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I’ve very aware of the work that Paul Stubblebine and his partners are doing at The Tape Project but I
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You may have already read about some craziness going on at eBay. I’ve talked about $1000 glass CDs but $4999.99
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The production of an album can be accomplished using a lot of different approaches and techniques. The purist approach involves
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This is the second part of a series of posts about the challenges that confront designers of analog tape machines.
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I’ve been working with analog tape a lot over the past month. My Nagra and Ampex 440C 1/4″ machines have
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I know I’ve been dwelling on the session that I just finished but I feel justified because it was a
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I’ve tried in several previous posts to establish that analog tape is NOT capable of delivering “the highest quality reproduction
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