| I love this thread, and I agree... tape is the reason, as well as other great equipment and engineers. Even though most equipment is designed for very high fidelity, that doesn't mean that every source needs the utmost clarity to be pleasing. Tape simply did something special, which even at that time was under-appreciated. It's compression characteristics, distortion and slight dampening of the high end, all just so happened to be the very things we find pleasing to the ear. I think the digital generation has a greater opportunity to put the phenomena of tape it in proper perspective. It's not everything- but it's definitely something you miss when it's gone.
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...My 57 is only a few years old, but I'd like to think that someday my children can pass it down to their children.
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