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From: etan@tellab1.UUCP (Nate Stelton)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Re: Tighter bass and edgeless piano
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 13:21:06 EDT
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In article <4361@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>> Here's a different one for you:  Can you hear the stick hit the cymbal?
>> This is not always answered the same for every 20-20k system.  I have 2
>> cassette decks that have the same freq ranges, but a cymbal hit by a stick
>> sounds like a "tick" as recorded by one and "sshh" by the other.  This is
>> transient response, and can be illustrated by inputting a 20kHz square wave
>> into the equipment in question and observing the output's rise time.  Look
>> for slew rate specs; a high number means that, among other things, a piano
>> will sound more like the real thing.
>
>Nah, it's probably that your two decks differ in azimuth setting.

Theoretically, I guess no two decks will have *exactly* the same azimuth
adjustment.  The interesting thing in my 2-deck experiment was that a
recording on deck #1 sounded better being played back on deck #2 than the
recording from deck #2.  Deck #1 is a Teac A-105 from 1979, and #2 is a newer
Akai CF-14 (I think that's the right number).  I have found that the old Teac
at $130 records better than other, more recent machines in this price range.

                                  -etan