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Recently my desire to listen to music on antiquated formats has been rekindled, and I found myself digging out some tapes I had as a kid in the late 80's - early 90's.
They actually sound better than I remembered too... of course, this depends largely on what cassette player you're using.
Anyways, I wanted to record some master quality stuff from my Fiio X3 onto tape for shits and giggles, and I found out my nice system I inherited from my parents is on the fritz (probably needs a new belt but I can't be arsed right now), so I said fuck it and went for the best portable recorder I could find:
The motherfuckin' Sony WM-D6C!
This is a professional recorder that's only about 25-30% bigger than your average walkman, and both the playback and recording quality is top-notch. This sucker features manually selectable tape types (normal, CrO2, Metal) as well as both Dolby B & C noise reduction. For the time, it was a huge feat of engineering to fit all of the necessary components for Dolby C into a body this small!
This thing even has an led vu meter so you can monitor your recording level.
Been using Sony CD-IT CrO2 tapes and really I can barely tell the difference between the tape and a CD. Of course that changes a bit when I put the tape in my cheaper walkman, but it still sounds great.
So, are any of you guys into this stuff?
They actually sound better than I remembered too... of course, this depends largely on what cassette player you're using.
Anyways, I wanted to record some master quality stuff from my Fiio X3 onto tape for shits and giggles, and I found out my nice system I inherited from my parents is on the fritz (probably needs a new belt but I can't be arsed right now), so I said fuck it and went for the best portable recorder I could find:
The motherfuckin' Sony WM-D6C!
This is a professional recorder that's only about 25-30% bigger than your average walkman, and both the playback and recording quality is top-notch. This sucker features manually selectable tape types (normal, CrO2, Metal) as well as both Dolby B & C noise reduction. For the time, it was a huge feat of engineering to fit all of the necessary components for Dolby C into a body this small!
This thing even has an led vu meter so you can monitor your recording level.
Been using Sony CD-IT CrO2 tapes and really I can barely tell the difference between the tape and a CD. Of course that changes a bit when I put the tape in my cheaper walkman, but it still sounds great.
So, are any of you guys into this stuff?
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