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  1. Alex SE

    Funny pictures...

    Is Indian version using batteries too or gasoline? Maybe a CT with some V8 would be actually a good truck
  2. Alex SE

    Funny pictures...

    Now this is what I call THE MUSIC (Tap/klick THE MUSIC to see music video)
  3. Alex SE

    Anyone understands how calibration is working?

    Yes, it is 965, since that all other RS-B's are in order. Unless it is 0db (which I doubt) it will be hard to determine since that peak meters are not precise at all at -20, but sure, it can give me a clue. It can't be -18 or -15. If so low, it have to be -20 than. From beginning: RS-B965, a...
  4. Alex SE

    Anyone understands how calibration is working?

    Thread title is probably not clear but I'll try to explain what I mean :) Under the process of calibration, oscillator (or however it is called) is sending a two signals to a recording head. The one is for level adjustment (315 or 400Hz) and the other is for bias adjustment (8 or 10kHz...
  5. Alex SE

    Funny pictures...

    Even more scary is a fact that there are a powerful men and politicians who see us ordinarie people exactly the same way. Regarding AI, the whole story is much deeper and scary than we think. Oh yes, we gonna miss those "analog" times.
  6. Alex SE

    Funny pictures...

    That's exactly how we think while recording a tapes. It have to be as realistic as it just can be.
  7. Alex SE

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    Why didn't you said that earlier? I could buy myself a a car without to loan a money from the bank, but I've already bought abougt 15 tapes
  8. Alex SE

    Funny pictures...

    Never seen it before so I don't even know what it is but absolutely beautiful. All of it. https://www.facebook.com/reel/511842201415479/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
  9. Alex SE

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    As an amateur teen smoker, I was more "exploring" different brands like Dunhill, Rothmans and others. Later at high school we were smoking Lucky Strike, Winston 100s, French well known Gauloises and Gitanes both with and without filter and some others :) In that time Marlboro was about 25...
  10. Alex SE

    What are you drinking?

    Just came home after the "hard working day" and a walker was waiting for me. Not Johnnie from Scotland but James from London :) Introduced a bottle of tonic to him :) Seems that it's gonna be a nice easy evening.
  11. Alex SE

    Calibrating a deck recording

    And that's the answer I was looking for! Another weekend - another knowledge :) Thanx! I know which one you was meaning, I have 34 of XLII-S, just mentioned that I've recently bought couple of XLII in a black shell/green wrap. Don't know how good they are, but a price was OK. *still can't...
  12. Alex SE

    Calibrating a deck recording

    OK, so generally the one should (but not necessarily) use a tape which have a flat FR, obviously ferric. If I understand correctly, type I cassettes requires the least bias. Then why set external bias pots in the middle? That way there is a limited amount of positive bias to add and it can be...
  13. Alex SE

    Calibrating a deck recording

    XLII-S is one of my favs but didn't tested yet to record one on my newly adjusted decks. Good that you Vince pointed that XLII-S one is one of those which needs more bias. Generally, is it so that all chrome tapes need more bias than normal ones? How about a metal tapes, are they closer to...
  14. Alex SE

    Calibrating a deck recording

    The one I'm talking about is RS-B965 which is I believe from '90. or '91. I think somebody wrote somewhere that Technics and some other Japanese decks are adjusted with TDK tapes. How good was TDK tapes from that era is something else. I wasn't even thinking about that you said "... as the year...
  15. Alex SE

    Calibrating a deck recording

    And that's exactly where I don't want to go :) I was curious it there are some tapes that are more "in the middle" and better for BIAS adjustment. As an amateur, I have so far learned myself that ferric tapes are more flat and needs less bias, while chrome needs more bias. Didn't tested metal...
  16. Alex SE

    Calibrating a deck recording

    My decks are finally serviced and adjusted but there is one thing I'm curious about. I have tried to adjust BIAS using Maxell UDII-90CD (the one with a clear shell) and TDK SA60 from 82-83. It didn't worked well because... no matter. Another Phoenix member which I appreciate a lot told me to try...
  17. Alex SE

    Cassette lovers; why?

    Just temporarily changing a subject :) Anyone believe that this stuff is real. Not that I'm interested, I have what I need and when I don't then I buy from Alex ANT. I'm just curious, after so many years, guy have a bunch of all possible and impossible test tapes...
  18. Alex SE

    Cassette lovers; why?

    Hey @Makymak, some guy is selling AZ7 i Sweden, asking for 500€. Seems that I was wrong about that deck :) Here is a sellers description: A top of the line , high end audiophile Technics RS-AZ7 , made in Japan in 1996 . The Technics RS-AZ7 cassette deck is one of the best sounding & recording...
  19. Alex SE

    Cassette lovers; why?

    Never seen those tapes before but they should be good. 100€ is not a little money but unfortunately tape prices in Europe are high. Our friends at the other side of the ocean have a better luck. Cassettes in US are cheaper and much easier to find. Regarding a lenght, 100 minutes should be fine...
  20. Alex SE

    Cassette lovers; why?

    Hard to tell if a quality of that Houston tape is good. Somebody should test it. Since that it's not available here in Europe, everything is on you guys in US.
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