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arjoll said:GXC-46D by any chance?
I don't remember the model... it's going back a ways. If I saw a picture I would know it though.

arjoll said:GXC-46D by any chance?
http://cgi.ebay.fr/PLATINE-K7-AKAI-GXC-46D_W0QQitemZ5847704094QQcategoryZ88760QQcmdZViewItemBeck said:I don't remember the model... it's going back a ways. If I saw a picture I would know it though.![]()
arjoll said:http://cgi.ebay.fr/PLATINE-K7-AKAI-GXC-46D_W0QQitemZ5847704094QQcategoryZ88760QQcmdZViewItem
This model was dad's first cassette deck, he bought it a year or so before upgrading from a Sony (which he hated) to a 4000DB reel to reel.
SteveMac said:Oh great, there go all the inexpensive tape decks!!![]()
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I have CDs older than ten years that still play fine. I don't know, it's probably true but not to that extreme. 5 year life span?
The Ghost of FM said:That's an interesting wish but even your wish itself has the evolution of progress built into it. Records came out first with limited lifespans after a given number of plays, were susceptible to scratches and skipping, had limited bandwidth and dynamics and also didn't offer any editing capabilities or very long play times...All of those shortcomings were addressed and improved upon with the advent of magnetic tape.
Magnetic tape recording also has it's known set of shortcomings and in many respects, the intentions and aspirations of it's digital replacements were honest attempts at delivering a more flexible format for sound engineers to work with and for the public to play with. I wouldn't characterize the manufacturer's intentions as evil or strictly capital driven! The only thing we can really say about digital that is true is that it is not a mature technology yet. We have growing pains to still go through with it. We need storage formats that are more reliable. We need interfaces to work with that are as intuitive as what we came to rely upon with good analog gear. We need computers that process all of the tasks we need them to perform with the speed of an analog circuit no matter how many things are going on in the background.
Once digital does mature to a stage where it is not only equal to analog in all of its beneficial fidelity and operational ways, we can at that point happily retire our analog equipment and storage mediums and move on to something truly superior.
We're not there yet.
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Old acetate tape (usually pre-1960) does suffer from the same kind of vinegar syndrome that can destroy old film, but most tape from the last 45+ years has used polyester/mylar film as a base and does not suffer from this problem. Prior to acetate, paper tape was used, although this is going back to the very, very early days of tape recording.8tothebar said:Tape is cellulose, right? Correct me if I am wrong. Hmmmm. Ted Turner spent a fortune to restore old films that had deteriorated.
8tothebar said:Beck, please accept my apology...
Tape is cellulose, right? Correct me if I am wrong. Hmmmm. Ted Turner spent a fortune to restore old films that had deteriorated
Outlaws said:Yep, and the next wave of CD/DVD is coming soon. Sony (I believe) and another company have come up with a coating for the BlueRay or HD-DVD or whatever ends up winning, that is almost completly scratch proof. Obviously a knife or something will scratch it by carving out a chunk, but 99.999% of scratches CD/DVDs current obtain will be done with.![]()
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EDAN said:Um, I'm sure I remember back in 88 when I bought my first CD (VH 1984) that this was the big selling point back then as well.