gofar99 Messages: 1906 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
Illuminati (5th Degree)
Hi, Not quite dead, but well on the way. I suspect that there will always be some applications for tape. I still have a Harmon Kardon HK391. It is circa 1977. That was back before they went downhill. It has Dolby C, Metal and HX Pro. With a metal tape the S/N is really quite good. I bought a whole bunch of tapes before they got hard to find and keep them in a cool place. The sound is hard to tell from an analog recording. Slight effects of the Dolby systems are give aways. Slight changes to the leading and trailing edges of high frequency sounds, but IMHO better than many of the MP3s I've heard. BTW I use 320K MP3s and they sound better than the HK. Still 34 year old tech is still pretty amazing. One thing for sure if anything breaks I'm SOL.
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