Honesty of the Reviewers

@westcoastaudiophile,

I apologize for my jaded attitude towards it all.  I cannot remember all the dragons(noise, distortion etc) I have encountered since I started almost 60 years ago.  A few were slain, primarily in the tape recording arena, most were just tamed.  Some just sort of disappeared by themselves.  JITTER, TIM, and SLEW RATE come to mind.  On day they were all the rage, the next day they were never discussed again.  And some just made a come-back, warts and all.  LPs.

The whole industry reminds me of what a British news reporter once said concerning electronics, "we all just sit here like knots on a log waiting for the next American Gadget that we can't live without."

Cheers

@rok2id

Well there certainly was something romantic about analogue tape.

With 2 inch tape at a decent speed the results have probably never been surpassed.

Even in this age of digital recording some studios still use tape for the odd recording. This is despite its issues of tracking, maintenance, wear and tear etc.

Perhaps not everyone is convinced by the effectiveness of all the various so-called analogue sounding digital plug-ins?

Perhaps that’s what the history of audio is really teaching us, perhaps what the reviewers should be saying is that things are changing constantly, but not always for the better.

Well there certainly was something romantic about analogue tape.

Sure was.  I still have my Nakamichi 700 and RX505.  They could be placed in an art gallery.

what the reviewers should be saying is that things are changing constantly, but not always for the better.

They should, but they won't.  Everyone has an agenda.

Cheers

"Well there certainly was something romantic about analogue tape"

-practical too, (too) many of sound tracks we run, original or remixed, are originated from studio tapes