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| From | Ken Kase <kenkase@nighttimes.com> |
| Subject | Re: audities-digest V4 #428 (13 msgs) |
| Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:06:57 -0600 |
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On 10/30/06 11:23 AM, "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net> wrote:
> I vividly recall splashing out for some fancy chrone tapes so that I could
> tape a friend's copy of Petty's "Pack Up The Plantation," live record from
> c. 85-86. I think Lloyd Cole's "Easy Pieces" LP was on the second side. I
> also recall thinking that the chrome tapes sounded miles above the regular
> bias Sony cassettes I'd been buying until then. But it was a rare expense.
The music you saved for high bias duplication indicated the esteem with
which you held the music in question. When CDs came out and you had the
opportunity to dub one from a friend, it was a no brainer--had to be chrome.
New music you were just trying out for the first time was often relegated to
normal bias. The Catch-22 was, the greater the bias, the more hiss you had
to control for.
Metal tapes were beyond most pocketbooks, although I made a metal copy of
Abbey Road that I took through Holland and Germany on my walkman in 1990
that sounded quite lovely.
--Ken
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