This experiment grew out of the confluence of two odd audio views I have.
1) I love tape - Cassette, Reel to Reel, Elcasette. You name it. I've always enjoyed it.
2) The Internet is banned from my stereo - As the internet has taken over near enough every other aspect of my life, I have decided to ban it from my stereo. Physical media only for me, thank you!
I've been long considering the idea of taking the most ephemeral of audio formats, streaming, and in this case namely Tidal, and copying it onto physical media. As Tidal now has the lovely sounding MQA albums available, and my little dad does do MQA, why not record those albums I love, or maybe don't love quite enough to buy, and put them onto cassette?
Why not indeed! So tonight, I took my first crack at it. I recording the Master recording of Getz/Gilberto onto my favourite vintage cassette, the Maxell XL-IIS 90, in it's mid 90's format, with that incredibly heavy and dense shell.
So how did it work? Wonderfully. It sounds lovely. Slightly more analog then straight from Tidal, but that's hardly noticeable.
One down. Hundreds to go! This will be fun!
1) I love tape - Cassette, Reel to Reel, Elcasette. You name it. I've always enjoyed it.
2) The Internet is banned from my stereo - As the internet has taken over near enough every other aspect of my life, I have decided to ban it from my stereo. Physical media only for me, thank you!
I've been long considering the idea of taking the most ephemeral of audio formats, streaming, and in this case namely Tidal, and copying it onto physical media. As Tidal now has the lovely sounding MQA albums available, and my little dad does do MQA, why not record those albums I love, or maybe don't love quite enough to buy, and put them onto cassette?
Why not indeed! So tonight, I took my first crack at it. I recording the Master recording of Getz/Gilberto onto my favourite vintage cassette, the Maxell XL-IIS 90, in it's mid 90's format, with that incredibly heavy and dense shell.
So how did it work? Wonderfully. It sounds lovely. Slightly more analog then straight from Tidal, but that's hardly noticeable.
One down. Hundreds to go! This will be fun!