Board:   [DoveNet] Pro-Audio Discussion
Subject: Re: Tape deck
From:    Digital Man
Date:    Wed Apr 22, 2020 17:13

  Re: Re: Tape deck
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Apr 22 2020 02:17 pm

 >   Re: Re: Tape deck
 >   By: Digital Man to calcmandan on Wed Apr 22 2020 12:30 pm
 >
 >  DM> With vinyl, you had "groove echo" (even on a brand new LP), which I
 >  DM> don't miss... so yeah, I'm the digital man for a reason. :-)
 >
 > I tend to like digital formats too (CD and computer audio files).  I don't
 > like the hiss and pops and crackles in vinyl.  And not too long ago I
 > learned something I never really thought about, that because vinyl records
 > spin at a constant speed, the grooves toward the center of the record don't
 > capture highfrequencies as well as the outer grooves because the inner
 > grooves are shorter.

Good point. You'd have lower fidelity on those inner grooves. Tapes had similar issues as the amount of tape on the spool could affect the speed over the heads. "Mechanical music" :-)

                                            digital man

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