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In the Thread: It is all about hard surface.

Post Subject: Tape ProjectPosted by Jorge on: 6/13/2011

I have tried a lot of tape recorders and different tapes of different quality, thanks to a few close friends. There is the Tape Project tapes which quality is always very good, and although the selection of music is very good they have a limited catalog with different things for different tastes in music, their classical tapes are very few. They are expensive, but almost at the same price you get any of the so called "Master-dubs". There are other manufacturers in Germany of excelent tapes, but again, the music is a selection of great things and very limited classical. Then of course the Ebay stuff some of which have very, very good quality, but you have to know what you are looking for. There is a great selection of classical but they are 4 track with dolby, so you need to reset your machine head for them.
But when you get a good tape, all other sources pale by comparison....
About Master dubs, well the quality varies between the sources and even within one source, you can get a couple of wonderful tapes and then one that seems to be copied from an Lp. How can you tell? Maybe it was just a bad recording day at the studio in the 70s or some smart guy trying to sell you an Lp copy as a Master dub...

I think the best thing would be to buy music directly form the orchestras like this link:

http://www.bso.org/bso/shop/productCategories.jsp?id=bcat13360032

I have a wet dream that all symphonic halls will offer the recordings of last weeks concerts over the net, in different formats, high res 2 channel of course would be the selected one, then maybe you can connect to "La Scala" and try their stuff, lets say they hired this idiot engineer so although the performances are great, the recoding quality is not that good, but if you go to the London Symphony, the recordings are great! or say the Best recordings, believe it or not come from the Utah state simphony... Whatever, It would be wonderful to have that acces and to be able to download all the music that is bieng played once and never again, be able to select the best performances and store them in your Hard drive...
The technology is already there, and I a sure at least a very faithful small market. The idea is there as in the BSO link provided, there should be some more I am not aware since I am just gathering stuff to build my High res computer, but it sounds like the future of the music market.

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