Re: transferring cassettes to CD - Plusdeck 2C or other options

<mad.scientist.jr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Wow, I never knew that azimuth stability was such a problem with
> cassettes.

Its a very major problem, exasperated by the low tape speed.


> How do you know how to adjust the azimuth - or how would a device know
> what the correct setting is? Is there some fail safe way to tell, or
> do you have to use your own ears?

The best way to adjust azimuth is to have a mono test tape, and adjust the

azimuth until tape heads tracking the top and bottom edges of the recorded

track reproduce waves with identical timing.

William's story about tape heads that split one of the tracks on the 
cassette is very believable. It turned every track into a mono track by 
having two narrow heads that split the track. The narrowness of each head 
would  hurt its dynamic range,  but summing them together to create an 
output signal would eliminate that problem.