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From: 551rcg@hound.UUCP (R.GANNS)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: need advice on making cassette recordings
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Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 13:57:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 22 13:57:41 1984
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        First a word of thanks to those who sent me suggestions on how
     to deal with a problem tape.

        My next question (you may have gathered by now that I know little
     about tape recording gear) is:

            I am considering taping all of my LP albums onto cassettes,
     so as to reduce the weight and bulk of music collection. I tried 
     this about 15 years ago with a portable Sony stereo cassette recorder,
     and had mixed results. At that time, I was not aware of the need to
     properly demagnetize heads, so that undoubtedly caused some of the
     failures to get good recordings.

          My big question: is this a good idea? What brands of tape
     should I use? Who makes a compact but good quality cassette
     recorder? I am interested in something that would not take up 
     much room, as I intend to install it on a cruising sailboat.
     I would like something that does a good job of recording and 
     playing back, but I don't need a lot of sophistocated features.
     I will probably run two speakers off of it. It might be nice
     if it had an integral AM/FM radio, but not essential. It would
     also be nice if it could run off 12V dc current.

         Comments appreciated.        Rich Ganns  hound!551rcg
                                                  (201) 949-0315