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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Transfer: The reel-to-reel operas wanted. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-10 
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To facts: 1) A few weeks back Robert Witrak. The owner of http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/ http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2692 sent me example of the original 24/96 files that he is greeting after his AD processor. The resul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Reel-to-Reel Tape vs. Raw Better Digital by Romy the Cat on 2007-11-16 
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I was pointed out to an endeavor of Type Project where the guy who trade Bottlehead kits is trying to promote contemporary 15ips master dubs and staff eBay machine with Bottlehead-level of electronics. http://www.tapeproject.com It is no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Reel To Reel: Impractical, Archaic by drdna on 2007-11-18 
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[quote user="Paul S"] I was simply amazed years ago by the little Sony "Pro Walkman" tape recorder, which could literally create and play back material that was sonically better than most records.[/quote] I also have used a professional DAT recorder ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: A recent patent and keeping it reel by Paul S on 2008-03-17 
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I was actually looking for something else when I ran across this:  http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6955469-description.html                    ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Bye-Bye Reel by Romy the Cat on 2013-01-17 
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After a few years of straggling I let my better Reel-to-Reel machine go.  I still have my Otari that is good to play many tapes that I have but my quality–pushy customized Stelevox was just recently sold. Nope, I do not feel that there is anything wr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Reel Machines :-O by beemer on 2005-01-12 
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Romy!More changes:B&W Matrix 800's gone.Aerial 20t's in.Wadia 270/27ix gone.Levinson 390s in.Classe Omega preamp in.Got the Otari MX5050BII reel deck up and running in the system.....also the TEAC X-1000R 4 track in the system.Life is good, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How audio started…. by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-21 
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It is interesting to recall how audio started in my life. Somebody asked and I was puling out from my memories some unconnected fragments was really enjoying to recall those times… I do not relay remember how old I was. I was then probably 10, as a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Dreams about Audio by Romy the Cat on 2014-02-20 
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I need to admit that I see a lot of dreams. Some of them interpretable, some of them are memorable and sane and some of them of course make me sorry that I use to rear too much Franz Kafka in my childhood. It is fun to make attempt to interpret the d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Transfer: The reel-to-reel operas wanted. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-10 
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To facts: 1) A few weeks back Robert Witrak. The owner of http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/ http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2692 sent me example of the original 24/96 files that he is greeting after his AD processor. The resul...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Pretty much as I suspected. by Paul S on 2007-11-18 
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So are we trying to decide how it should be done so we can roll our own?  Because I was simply amazed years ago by the little Sony "Pro Walkman" tape recorder, which could literally create and play back material that was sonically better th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Driving a TT with ... shoelace. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A longer turntable belt. in Analog Playback  60 Replies 
[quote user="Wojtek"] A magnetic tape (VCR) seems to be in fashion in some circles ,as a rubber belt replacement .Doesn't stretch like rubber and you can glue the required lenght as you wish .Custom motor pulley is required[/quote] This is big colt ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Reel To Reel: Impractical, Archaic by drdna on 2007-11-18 
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[quote user="Paul S"] I was simply amazed years ago by the little Sony "Pro Walkman" tape recorder, which could literally create and play back material that was sonically better than most records.[/quote] I also have used a professional DAT recorder ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Fabulous ways to spend money and frustrate your self by Bud on 2005-11-04 
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My first choice would be a Sony SACD recorder with storage in SACD format. Quite expensive, but I would not use an expensive Sony playback device. Their early models (still available new on ebay) were designed to show how much better than regular CD ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Why not direct to disc? by Antonio J. on 2005-11-04 
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Certainly not the most practical and inexpensive, but probably the system that could keep better the "size and weight" of a performance, just the same way this system did 70 years ago. I don't think a computer based system would keep it, no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: Well... by Paul S on 2013-11-07 
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Thanks, Romy.Nice that the PF reviewer is so happy with his battery powered iDAT 44+. While I agree that it is a good DAC option, I have to add that we are still talking "digital".  With all problems of LPs and LP playback, IMO this is still the way ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Re: Driving a TT with ... shoelace. by TonyB on 2006-02-07 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do not know, I always have difficulties to talk with audio people about those subjects. They seems to have very strong and very definitive position how different driving tool affect sound of their timbales. The most ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Another view by rowuk on 2020-11-20 
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Yes, the warts of bad music or badly recorded music will be more obvious and perhaps at the beginning very disruptive. I contend however that the human state is VERY adaptable and that we can develop techniques to accept the lesser attempts for what ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How to record FM broadcasts. by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-04 
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My tastes in audio slowly but irreversibly migrate out of the “common audiophile sense”.  Years ago I met some people form NY and Chicago, the former classical radio-station employees, the people with encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: What can the laymen do? by Doron on 2009-05-06 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anyhow, the point is that audio people do not deal with original raw digital file therefore their comments about Analog vs. Digital are not relevant as they do not see the true digital but rather a digital crap. [/quote]Hi ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Ultra-incomprehension. by de charlus on 2013-07-06 
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Thank you, Rennie, but that's entirely beyond me. As for Romy's input, I do take your point; it's hard to imagine a single DAC possessing virtues entirely harmonious with all three sources - maybe I should just go for the best universal player attain...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Emmlabs etc by de charlus on 2013-07-07 
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Thanks guys. It's interesting to hear such perspectives, especially upon computer audio; to go by the "audiophile press", high-res computer files are the best thing since that proverbial sliced bread - just like DVDAudio, HDCD, SACD etc were - so muc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Surrounded by Paul S on 2021-07-13 
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I continued to correspond with the late J Gordon Holt after he stopped doing Sterophile stuff. Gordon continued on as a recording engineer who infamously insisted on sonic verisimilitude, by which he meant that the system should "correctly" reproduce...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Rim drive turntables and the rest of them. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-28 
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[quote user="Serge"][/quote] I do not have any opinion about rim drive, idler drive, belt of whatever. Sure we can extend out theories but in reality we still do not know what truly is responsible for Sound. I am very sure that if to have purely soni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Practical considerations by Paul S on 2007-11-18 
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I have heard great recordings done and played back on +/- "portable" 15 ips machines, so I know it can be done.  Also, there are so many ongoing QC issues with 30 ips that it about cancels the theoretical advantages, IMO.  But if it ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Some reels experiments…. by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-04 
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Today I was trying to make some experiments. I made some recodings to my reel-to-reel machine from LP.  I did not go crazy and ran fairly poor cables just off my preamps. It was BASF 486 at 15ips ½ track. It was not bad, in fact quite good....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Metropolitan's 1975-79 tapes by Romy the Cat on 2006-10-09 
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I got last night an interesting collection of many dozens reel-to-reel tapes.  They are recordings of 1975-79 seasons of Metropolitan Opera mostly with James Levine. All reels are in meant condition, in own plastic bags, scrupulously numbered, a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Field coil by audiofilofine on 2010-08-10 
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to reel from 7 volts or 700 volts is equal to the reel. should rather ask why or why 7 or  700 volts. should be asked how you intend to use the horn driver, you should ask graphs of frequency response and power handling. build a field coil driver is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Holly cow! The Pussy might go digital? by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-04 
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[quote user="Bud"]My first choice would be a Sony SACD recorder with storage in SACD format. Quite expensive, but I would not use an expensive Sony playback device. Their early models (still available new on ebay) were designed to show how much bette...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: The best audio source EVER! by Antonio J. on 2005-08-20 
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Thanks for the wise advice Romy. I'm curious to know if you have ever recorded those broadcasted live events. I guess you've done for sure but I'd like to know if you've found open reel, cassette, CD-R or any other recording method most suitable...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Reel Machines :-O by beemer on 2005-01-12 
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Romy!More changes:B&W Matrix 800's gone.Aerial 20t's in.Wadia 270/27ix gone.Levinson 390s in.Classe Omega preamp in.Got the Otari MX5050BII reel deck up and running in the system.....also the TEAC X-1000R 4 track in the system.Life is good, ...
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