I got a few dumb questions.
What format are the old masters stored on? It's analog magnetic tape right?
Is there any way to make a nearly perfect 1:1 copy of magnetic tape (to tape) utilizing digital equipment?
I mean it's just on and off switches on the tape right? Seems like you should be able to read the switches, store them digitally, write them back to tape and read them a final time and correct any errors. Use two read heads and two write heads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_mastering
Masters were recorded on reel to reel, ulticam, dat and I'm sure hard drive today.
There's dat computer drives and you can rip the digital tracks right off them I would think.
You know what 90% of records are to me and I never hear anybody talk about this is
#1The mastering process
#2 The transferring process
#3 The pressing process
If you've got a crap record that they skipped any or all of those processes it doesn't matter how nice of a player or setup you have or how clean the record is. Almost all old records they didn't give a crap about fidelity wise when they made them. Most people couldn't tell the difference either because they listened to them on cheap little mono or stereo setups.
Back to the subject at hand I tried to stop buying cassettes in the early 90's. I liked records but they got hard to find in the late 80's early 90's. Cd's were hard to find for awhile as well. Tapes were cool because you could find play them in your car or at friends houses. Everybody always had a tape player.
I still have about 30 tapes. I tried to sell them on Ebay like 10 years ago for $15 auction free shipping.
Nobody bought, heard they've become popular again.
I haven't listened to them in at least 5-7 years.
I think I have some portable tape players I found next to the dumpster.
I got a ti-94 and it seems broken but the tape player works, maybe I should jam out to them on it.
Yeah I thought it was ok if you have a nice player. I found a nice high end one and I put it in my parents system. It had auto reverse, seek, line level adjustments played several formats. I asked them a couple years later if they still wanted it and they said they gave away the entire stereo system to Goodwill.
Why didn't the HD sound formats like DVD-A and SACD take off?