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- From: ahaley@eoe.co.uk (Andrew Haley)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Taping from CD question
- Message-ID: <1368@eouk9.eoe.co.uk>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 10:37:38 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.190808.21091@walter.bellcore.com>
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- fvr@broom.bae.bellcore.com (Frank Ricciardi) writes:
- : In article <1992Aug18.140733.1666@ucbeh.san.uc.edu>, vallamn@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
- : |>
- : |> Hi ! I have a question about taping from a CD player on to
- : |> a Chromium diodide tape. When I tape from a CD player
- : |> ( Sony CDP 241 ) on to a JVC compact integrated stereo
- : |> portable ( PC V 88 ) and I find that the tape, which is
- : |> a copy, is always a little crisper ( maybe this is a wrong
- : |> word ) than the CD itself. What I mean is, there is more
- : |> zing in the tape than in the CD. Why is this ? This does
- : ^^^^
- :
- : I think what you are experienceing is an unnatural accentuation of the
- : high frequency. Probably due to the fact that you are using a high bias
- : tape in normal position. Recording w/Dolby on and playing back with dolby off
- : often has the same result.
-
- This might not be the case. I have a fairly expensive TEAC cassette
- deck which has a little high frequency rise with SA tape when the bias
- is set at the centre position. This is easily fixed by adjusting the
- bias, but a portable is unlikely to have fine bias control. Are you
- really using chrome tape, or cobalt ferrite "chrome position" tape?
- It seems that SA, a cobalt type, needs more bias than the standard
- CrO2 setting. I don't use other types, so I don't know about them.
-
- : |> not happen when I use a normal bias tape. Is that much
- : |> bias added when I use a CrO2 tape ? How is metal in this
- : |> regard ?
-
- "chrome position" tape needs much more bias than normal tape. It also
- has a different eq curve. Metal tape needs more bias still, but has
- the same eq as chrome.
-
- Andrew.
-