[V8] Going backwards

[dsaad at icehouse.net]

The answer to that is vibration.

REcording on mag tape physically rearranges iron particles on the tape. 
Shake it up too much and they lose their orientation and the sound loses
its crispness. And on vinyl, each play of the record degrades the groove a
bit, and dust/crap accumulates in the grooves.  All reasons why digital is
better for lots of reasons - but a fresh record or tape on a tube amp is
still the gold standard.

Anyone (Roger?) remember in-car record players? I never saw one, but they
came before the 8-track.  Had a nice big spring to hold the needle (nail?)
against the poor helpless record.

Dave

(one of my previous lives was spend in automotive audio)



> Well I took the Lago car up to the ski area on Saturday to run it
> since it doesn't get driven much, and it was a joy to drive.  About
> 1/2 way I started to lose radio reception in the awsome sounding
> rebuilt Bose system so I popped in an old Jerry Garcia band bootleg
> tape that was in the glovebox which was better than nothing, but the
> tape quality sucked.  15 years ago, I would have said that was a
> "clean" tape, but the bar has been raised quite a bit since then.
> When I got home I did some digging, and found 8 unused Maxell XLII's
> packed away with the tape deck, and hooked it up to the Mac and made
> a clean tape that sounds incredible in the car.  Somewhere I've got
> the "how to connect an Ipod to Bose" writeup, but then what would I
> do with those other 7 tapes......Tom....going retro
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