In article c00f6359-d5a8-4daa-a6e7-526e88d76b91
@g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com, says...
On Jul 1, 3:57*pm, Barry wrote:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...7/01/BU2618GKE....

What's an iPod?

I read the article also. Most people look at the cassette as
equivalent withthe 8-track tape. But I bet these same people would
be shocked to find out that some of the better cassette decks had way
better specs than a Ipod. I have seen some of the Naks with freq.
response to 27 khz and my Denon, which was a mid-level deck, has freq.
response to 23 or 24 which I know is more than you can squeeze from
digital at even the highest bit rate. I'm just sayin'..........


I sold hifi stuff from about 72 until 79 or so, and the midrange decks
that I bought very cheaply from Panasonic/Teac/Akai/Sony/Onkyo would all
do at least 17K absolutely minimum, and many would go over 20 or even
22K. Most of them could record an LP well enough that it was very
difficult to tell the difference between the copy and the original. Some
actually had a slight bass boost, kind of a bonus back then, as records
had the bass cut most of the time.

I paid less than $200 for almost any of those decks, and if they were on
closeout, it was closer to $100. I still have a Technics deck I bought
in 1979 for a whopping $119+ shipping, and it works perfectly. I
recently bought another Technics deck, the same model as the first one I
bought at 14 years old. I got it from a guy on Ebay, and it looks and
sounds like it just came out of the box. Mine lasted over 27 years
before the take up reel motor died. I tried and tried to find one, and
finally scrapped it, only to find a perfectly working, but cosmetically
challenged one at Goodwill a couple months later. The one I have now is
slightly different, as it turned out there were four slightly different
versions of the same model. Panasonic/Technics did a lot of that with
cassette decks for some reason. A friend of mine's brother has the same
deck, with slightly different fonts on the labels, and the Technics logo
is smaller, too. My original one had sliding level pots, it's the only
one I've seen like it, except in pics, but every other one I have seen
in person has regular rotary pots for the level. The panel layout shows
that the sliders were the original design as there is a lot of wasted
room all around them.

I never could take 8-track sound for very long, the wow drove me up the
wall. Not to mention the track changing in the middle of songs.
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