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exactly so! after all, I'd say the actual problem is about those who, from a certain age and on, happen to always listen to the same few songs/artists and, on the other side, those who try to listen to a lot of different songs/artists and always adding more and more... and this is regardless...

well... I had stopped listening to "current" new music around 1988, at age 15... but, at the same time, I always look for some "new" music... just, 99% of the times, such new music (or at least new to me) was made before 1988. After all, if some music is new to me and I had never listened to it...

yeah... better to leave them alone, drowning into the same bad waters they carefully created by themselves... The karma would do the rest, as usual. Personally, even if I can still clearly remember about so many situations there with an unpleasant feeling of disgust, at now I am light years...

You might be right but, hey, wasn't it really a 'S' ? :toothy8:

I do remember the quality of the advices there went quickly down from when a "certain member" started to spam about polishing paste, Lenor fabric softener on rubber parts and some other bullshits, like (mis)aligning the left roller's guide on dual capstan deck according to how a track alignment...

Didn't you know the "rules" there are true only for the common members? The Mod staff is well above any rules.... like if giving the good example to the people would be a terrible mistake! :p "Do what we say and not what we do" is their motto.

urban legends are hard to die. they also say pure chromium dioxide tapes wear the heads quickly. but it's all a matter of surface finish and to regularly clean heads and tape path. anyways, these days we tend to own several decks and surely we don't use them as much as we did in the old days...

Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk - 1988 one of my favourite albums ever

on my 4700 power supply PCB, I've found such kind of corrosion (but a lot worse than there!) just in the zone where those brown ELNA capacitors released all that brown crap... maybe someone just replaced some of them just there, for the same reason?

is that one the actual audio board? mine has it and, looking at the inside, that 6700 looks a lot like my 4700... maybe the basic design is the same and they share a lot of things? regarding the power supply.... years ago, when I started experiencing issues on HiFi Audio, I had tried to...

interesting thread, thanks for sharing! some of what you show here might be useful to get some hints to fix my JVC HR-S4700EG which has the power supply which is totally gone, after some capacitors leaked some brown crap and messed it totally (in fact, I am tempted to replace quite everything...

to give you some idea about what I had to do on my AIWA... I arranged one of the REC EQ filter options for the metal position by applying this REC EQ boost curve (the continuous curve, not the dotted one), where you can see a "bell shaped" filter applied on the infrasonic range which boosts up...

Of course, as you say. Set/design the deck recording circuit in order to be flat on the standard tapes... after all, if it does exist a standard then it must be taken into consideration. I also prefer to tweak the rec circuit to tapes like SA (or Sony UX, same situation) , some good basic ferric...

My idea is that letting the user handle 3 recording parameters (i.e. on manual calibration decks) rather than 2 parameters makes the calibration problem one order or infinite more complex. And just by having both bias and REC EQ at hand you can easily get confused/indefinite situations, unless...

who knows really why? but Nando's guess makes sense. the superferrics on boomboxes used to offer a welcome boost.

exactly so. That's just a hint that the tape is intended to be a bit bright on a deck with standard REC EQ arrangements. Also that bit more sensitivity compared to the HF is how it really is. And HF-ES has still some more sensitivity and treble boost than HF-S. point is that REC EQ is a...

there are so many tapes which, when properly biased, will still show some boost on the mid-hi and treble on a standard aligned deck. The "cure" is to adjust REC EQ pre-emphasys, when possible. about type1, the basic ferrics are generally the ones with standard/flat response while some mid-late...

Thanks, my friend. :) Truth is that this modification project was made, little by little, during a few years. But, yes, in total it needed just a lot of time. :D and the reason why I did it was that this AD-F880 had a quite worn head and I had just amorphous to replace it but, at the same...

just as an example... these are all cassettes, all different brand/model/year, which I use to check/align recording parameters on my own decks. they are quite enough to make statistics about calibration parameters so that i know what tape can be a good reference for a given purpose... i.e...