The Audio Chain: Reel to Reel Tape
An old idiom states, “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link”. As audiophiles, we are constantly striving
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Analog Tape
Fidelity vs. Sound: Which Is Better?
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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The Analog Tape Adventure
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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$4999 for Reel-To-Reel Analog Tape
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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A Strange Path To A Rating of “10”
The production of an album can be accomplished using a lot of different approaches and techniques. The purist approach involves
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Everyone Wants In The Club: Analog Tape II
This is the second part of a series of posts about the challenges that confront designers of analog tape machines.
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Analog Tape As High-Resolution? No Way.
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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An Analog Tape vs. PCM Comparison
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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Making Copies…Analog Style Part I
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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15 ips Analog Tape
Since when did a 50-year-old analog format become the standard bearer for state-of-the-art music recording and reproduction? I’m reading the
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