Analog Tape

Updating the Past Part III

We’re on a quest to convert the output from an analog source to a digital copy. The central piece of

Maybe you’re an avid collector of analog tape or vinyl LP and have been thinking about bringing your catalog into

I’ve been working with analog tape a lot over the past month. My Nagra and Ampex 440C 1/4″ machines have

This post is a continuation from yesterday. We’re talking about the concept of analog tape “masters” and copies of masters.

I’ve tried in several previous posts to establish that analog tape is NOT capable of delivering “the highest quality reproduction

I received this quote extracted from a newsletter sent by High Definition Tape Transfers, “HDTT’s new Double DSD transfers from

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

There is a lot of information and a lot of misinformation about audio out there on the World Wide Web.

A good friend and the local representative of Symth-Research (a company that makes the “Room Realizer” box that can reproduce

Recording on reels of magnetic tape started in the late 1930s in Germany. During WWII, German audio engineers improved the