In the Nakamichi I am playing back cassettes which were made live in the field. I am sure the record deck was not in perfect alignment. There is a reason why Nakamichi build a deck which doesn’t auto azimuth. They knew there would be some variation from deck to deck.
Could be, but I have played back tapes made from multiple different Sony decks, maybe 10-20, so I think this is how Sony sets their azimuth. The same goes for tapes made in Tascams.
Can the moderators please fix the incorrectly spelled title? I do wish people would make some attempt to read what they have typed before the submit it.
That's not been my experience. For example, the azimuth for Sony decks is very different than Nakamichi. When I play a tape in my Nakamichi Dragon that was recorded on a Sony, it take 5-10 seconds for the deck to get the azimuth adjusted.
My last instructions in the thread are:
“The username and password are the same credentials as VNC as well.”
Those would be the credentials for the Extreme (or Olympus). People may have changed their username and password from the default.
I am definitely confused (but open-minded) by the notion that different audio conversion software results in wav files that sound different. It completely contradicts my notion of what these encoding software packages do. Why aren't they all behaving like winzip? Every time I unzip a file I get...
The only thing that matters is what it sounds like. There is a lot of bling in the audio industry that does nothing positive for sound quality.
Maybe one of these days I will hear a reel to reel setup that sounds better than my Technics RS-1500 with a flux magnetic head + the Doshi Evo tape...
Can you share your listening experiences with hearing the Metaxas and TP-1000 and other decks in the same system at the same time? I want to understand the basis of "it's in a different league" comment.
"Consensus"? You must be new here. :D
I have listened to flacs and wavs of the same file sets
and did not hear a significant difference and definitely not enough to convert everything to wav. However, I don't doubt that others hear a difference.
I spoke to the guy leading the TP-1000 effort. Great guy and very accommodating.
Tons of dealers are difficult to deal with. You seem intent on trashing AAD. They have made a great, affordable product.