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Posted: August 10 2006 at 05:04

Moreover, it's more compact than CD.

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Posted: August 10 2006 at 04:58

I have an affection for cassette tapes as I grew up with them. I still have a small collection. What I like about cassette tapes is the chunky boxes. Cassette boxes look good on your shelves as you can read the labels from 5 metres away - you can't do that with CDs!

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Posted: May 10 2006 at 18:07

I have loads of tapes, about 500 and I still enjoy them...

only few of them are not in a very good shape...

Edited by aapatsos - May 10 2006 at 18:08

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Posted: May 10 2006 at 11:50

DONT TALK PLAYBOY IN THIS TOPIC! SHAME ON YOU!!!

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Posted: May 07 2006 at 07:35

I must say I am thankful to have kept them tapes, because my new second hand car still has a tape player and I have been re-listening top them for the last four months

Until I find the courage to instal the Cd player that was in my previous car

As far as Penthouse andplayboys I tend to think the best period was in the 80's because before that the piccies were to shy after they became to crass

>> just a question of equilibrium >> as for thearticles I never read them >> the odd one maybe , but those telling me they bought Penthouse and Playboys for other reasons than to slobber on the naked piccies were full of crap

Never did buy much of them anyway >> the live stuff from girlfriend is so much better >> had a girlfriend who actually read the letters >> the following few hours were much fun

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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Posted: May 07 2006 at 07:25

I gave most of my tapes away over the last while. I don't cre for them much anymore. I do like making up compilations though.

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Posted: May 06 2006 at 06:57

oliver , you crack me up!

i quite liked using tapes for a while but i had a crap tape player so for me cds are far superior

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Posted: May 05 2006 at 12:18

let's not get off topic

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Posted: May 03 2006 at 12:22

Sean Trane wrote:

Abstrakt wrote:

My Mum just found some old tapes with GENESIS on them... [IMG]height=17 alt="Big smile" src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley4.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle>

My mum finally found the old Penthouse and Playboys I had stashed away as a teen ager so she would not find them and throw them away

That cache last almost 30 years[IMG]height=17 alt=LOL src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley36.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle>

Eermmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....................[IMG]height=17 alt=Embarrassed src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley9.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle>

Sorry!! I thought that would be funny

Vintage Penthouse and Playboys are better than today ones! More artistic and featuring some very good articles.

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Posted: May 03 2006 at 12:20

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Think it's from 1974 - 1984

So, some may be analog!

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Posted: May 03 2006 at 11:44

Abstrakt wrote:

My Mum just found some old tapes with GENESIS on them...

My mum finally found the old Penthouse and Playboys I had stashed away as a teen ager so she would not find them and throw them away

That cache last almost 30 years

Eermmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....................

Sorry!! I thought that would be funny

let's just stay above the moral melee
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keep our sand-castle virtues
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prefer lifting our pen
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Posted: May 03 2006 at 11:43

Think it's from 1974 - 1984

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Posted: May 03 2006 at 11:42

If it's pure analog (released before 1982) and in good condition (not been used in cars or nasty players), it's like gold...

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Posted: May 03 2006 at 11:39

My Mum just found some old tapes with GENESIS on them...

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Posted: April 21 2006 at 15:52

oliverstoned wrote:

"and whether it diminishes your listening experience,"

You don't know what you're saying, or saying that to get me on nerves..well tried!

You're talking about something you've never heard, as usual!

Sorry, but I was listening to cassettes and vinyl for more than 5 years on different systems. As usual you are patronizing me ... you're pathetic.

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Posted: April 21 2006 at 15:19

do you like fuji DR-90??? that's like the olny thing i have... i like older tapes

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Posted: April 17 2006 at 03:08

"and whether it diminishes your listening experience,"

You don't know what you're saying, or saying that to get me on nerves..well tried!

You're talking about something you've never heard, as usual!

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Posted: April 16 2006 at 09:43

Dick Heath wrote:

BTW on a serious note: noticed how few MD portables on sale nowadays - another fad?

I remember reading something about this a couple of months ago; apparently they're still going strong in some Asian countries, but elsewhere people seem to have forgotten about them. And I can understand why, too

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Posted: April 16 2006 at 09:37

"facts from experience" are not really facts. "fact" is something that can be easily verified by anybody, or something on which there's a real consensus among experts. Signal/Noise ratio can be easily measured, and there are no differing opinions/theories about how to measure it.

And about the two "facts" you mentioned:

- "tubes have more distortion than solid state": Why, of course that's true. Whether you can hear that distortion, and whether it diminishes your listening experience, and that there are many different kinds of distortion ... all these factors make this a far more complicated matter than the signal/noise ratio.

- "digital is more precise than analog": That's wrong. A digital signal is always less precise than the analog source, because information is lost in the analog/digital conversion (=sampling). But - as the article you linked to also admitted - the new standards in digital recording (sampling rate of 96khz) move those inaccuracies well above the bandwidth of the human ear. And considering that most adults can't hear anything above 16khz, the usual examples with frequencies in that area are academic at best. Sure, on a really good system you will hear a difference sometimes. But it's not at all like another level of listening pleasure.

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Posted: April 16 2006 at 06:30

MikeEnRegalia wrote:

oliverstoned wrote:

No, digital devices such as your crappy sound card doesn't goes at 107 db. These are not true measures!

Of course you can ignore facts, that's your own decision.

oliverstoned wrote:

Top Naka tape decks are both studio and audiophile equipment. Talking about digital: http://happybob.com/marc/digital_sucks/index.htm

Nice article. Doesn't say anything about signal/noise ratio though.

The same facts that ther's more distorsion with tubes than solid state and that digital is more precise than anolog...facts from experience are something else!

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