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RE: why the interest in cassette decks and reel to reels

I'll start off with 3 reasons:

1. There is the opinion that the audio signal stored and retreived from analog media is superior/sounds better than that encoded to redbook cd specification. You will find 15-20 posts on this board each week from someone in the analog camp who has answered the debate absolulely, once and for all. You will also find 15-20 post each week from those in the digital camp who have accomplished the same. They are easy to spot because of the enormous number of responses and moderator interventions.

2. Reliability of CD-R media. I record the worship service direct to CD-R at my church each Sunday. When it works, the sound is preserved as faithfully as I could ask for. If the disc was bad, it is usually un-readable and the event is lost. When I recorded to cassette tape, if I had a bad tape I would get sound that is compromised, but still useable. I suppose we could record to hard disk, find a volunteer to transcribe to CD, look into tape or disk backup solutions, etc. But, that seems to be a far more complex effort that cassette tape.

3. It's fun for us. I know a guy who wacks a little white ball around a park for fun. I know another guy who drinks all night until he pukes then passes out. He says it's fun too... We all have our quirks. If you ask a Ford Model A enthusiast why he doesn't drive a (insert the name of your favorite ultra-reliable import/domestic look-alike bubble car here), and he/she will wax eloquent for hours. We just like tape machines.

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