In a way, for me this has been the definitive statement on this thread. Whatever floats a person's boat, we are all simply using a tool.....creatively. All considerations apart, we are just users of a tool - whatever that tool may be.
yep. thoroughly clean the heads and guides with isopropyl alcohol on q-tips. and keep them spotless. usually helps.
true dat.
. .i gotta bad habit. I like all the music on my old tapes, even those tapes with bad 'sss'. And i insist on playing them.
So i refuse to dump those bad tapes if they got good tunage on them.
So i play them anyway and have accepted that i'll just have to constantly clean the heads/guides/etc if i want said tunes to sound their best.
Some of the absolutely best sounding r2r tape i ever ran into was 'audiotape' formula 15 (orange coloring on box). I used them from 1973 til '75. Imo, this stuff sounded better on my sony 277-4 and a teac 4010 than maxells or whatever else i could get ahold of back then.
But 36 yrs later, we're talking major 'sss'!
when i went to play my quad version of 'the sound of music' (on said form. 15) last month, it still sound really great but i had to stop and clean about every 15 mins.
um, are we supposed to understand that?
EZ, my friend, my pal
. i've been into r2rs for 36+ years (had my own commercial recording studio back in the '80s). i am also into cd, dvds, blu ray, the list goes on and on...
...oh MAN!!!
My original thought of "Why should a person change" was more of a 'If someone is happy with what they've got why should they change just coz of the social pressure to do so' kind of thingy. Then I read your post there, Westgate, and my immediate thought was 'man, he's good coz if I had to keep cleaning my heads every 15 minutes, I'd be typing in "Ebay" or flinging the thing in the bin, retro antique or not !'. That said, I respect what a person wants to do. All my albums are on cassette coz that's what I prefer to play.....but they're on CD too. So when the tape dies I can just rerecord them. I remember the years of anxiety when some of the Lps I had were only on cassette and the vinyl had been long since deleted and I wasn't going to pay the equivalent of $780 for one in the collectors world of overprice. I was a relieved bloke once recordable CDs came out !!
LOL!
Granted, but some people do. They may not succumb to it and some may not even be aware of it but it's often there. If you never recycle but you sit in a room full of recyclers going on about the planet and what scumbags non-recyclers are, there's a social pressure there to 'mend your ways'. Groups that are very vocal about whatever they're for create a social pressure. Whether wittingly or not. Almost by osmosis. Kids are terrible for that-"You mean you don't even have a playstation !?"- and the adult world is no different, just a little more sophisticated and a little easier to swim against the tide. I'm in general agreement with you doing what you're happy doing.