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

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> It's a cheesy car-style trans****t that mounts in a computer.  It is not
> a good way to get decent sound quality and it is not going to hold up to
> heavy use.
> 
> Just go the **** Dragon route.  Your time will be radically saved because
> you won't be having to redo anything, and the azimuth control is
automatic
> so you can do the work more or less unattended.  Run it for a thousand
hours 
> and you might need to replace the heads but that's just a normal thing.
> 
> Yoou do NOT use cleaner cassettes, you use the "Head, Red and Roll
cleaner"
> from Precision Motor works or something similar and a swab.  And you do
it
> after every reel change.  You can use 92% isopropanol in a pinch but it
takes
> a lot more elbow grease.
> 
> Don't waste your money on crap.  Get a good deck either with manual or
> automatic azimuth control.
> --scott

Indeed, the Dragon was an exceedingly high-end consumer machine.  But it 
is expensive overkill for most people's old cassette collections.  This 
is especially true for most commercially recorded cassettes, which were 
duplicated at high speed on tape stock that was run-of-the-mill or worse.

Paul in San Francisco