自1978年以來，我就開始聆聽音樂，那時主要的媒介是黑膠唱片。在這50年裡，我使用過不同的音樂格式，包括黑膠、CD、錄音帶，還有一些開卷錄音的經驗，我相信開卷錄音是最好的。不過，使用原始錄音材料的開卷錄音機非常昂貴，所以我仍然將黑膠唱片作為我的主要音樂來源。最近，我開始收藏優質的錄音帶播放機，原因是「它的聲音更好，有時甚至比黑膠還要好」。當然，黑膠的粉絲很多，他們通常會說錄音帶播放機會「吃掉」磁帶，並且有很多雜音……最近有人說，即使是最便宜的黑膠唱機也能超越我的錄音帶播放機。
我曾在Facebook上發了一條消息，關於「復古錄音帶播放機」，有人問我為什麼還在聆聽這種設備。結果有許多評論，讓我高興的是我並不孤單於這個錄音帶的世界。
以下是一些評論：
1.
兩個輪子比一個更好！
2.
錄音帶真棒。
3.
不，他從未聽過好的錄音帶播放機。也許他的經驗只限於早期的預錄磁帶。我有朋友問過：「誰還在聽錄音帶？」我想除了她的無知，她從未聽過三菱的磁帶，唉，約翰·梅爾在我們喜歡的音源上，沒錯。但要說黑膠比磁帶優越，特別是便宜的黑膠設備，這正顯示出對技術事實的深度無知。
4.
正是如此！一位自稱討厭錄音帶的朋友，擁有一些高端音響，聽了我的一台（1990年代的普通雙頭雅馬哈）錄音帶播放機，驚訝不已！
5.
一盤高品質的錄音帶，來自數字音源，並正確使用Dolby NR（或者dbx，如果你願意），絕對能超越即使是最好的黑膠唱片和最好的唱盤。
6.
是的，就是這樣：錄音帶的聲音更好（即使在較低的質量下）。內行人都知道。
7.
商業世界摧毀了優質的錄音帶媒介，因為沒有人投資於製造高端錄音帶播放機。我在我的Teac上製作混音帶，然後在我的豐田車的Blaupunkt音響中播放。我根本不在乎別人怎麼想。
8.
我的一些錄音帶的聲音比我的唱片更好，這取決於錄製的方式和播放的系統。
9.
一台好的錄音帶播放機，正確調整到使用的磁帶，使用高品質的磁帶並從任何來源（包括黑膠）正確錄製，將產生出色的效果。雖然可能會有一些小的折衷，但依然很出色。沒關係，我們不希望每個人都知道我們知道的… 😉 我有一些錄音帶是我在80年代用BEOCORD錄製的，至今聽起來仍然很棒。鮑勃·哈登，我剛剛在聽1984年用相當普通的設備錄製的《愛在金色時代》，聽起來依然很棒。
10. 我的第一台錄音帶播放機是Advent，我非常喜歡。後來，我又買了Nakamichi，享受得更多！我還添加了一個dbx降噪單元，真的降低了噪音。
11. 我一直在慢慢組建我的「退休」系統，決定錄音帶應該被這一代的數字伺服器/串流器取代。
12. 我仍然希望找到一個像Nakamichi一樣出色的設備，可能會選擇Aurender.ACS10。它配備高達24TB的存儲，能將我的所有CD壓縮到這個巨大的SSD驅動器上，這樣除了我的LP外，所有東西都可以從我的聽音椅上訪問。畢竟，這是我的退休系統！-)
13. 然後希望他花一大筆錢購買音響級的針頭和流行黑膠的再版。
14. 每當有人對我這樣說時，我只會說「你沒有做對」。
15. 告訴那個人他是完全正確的，他應該堅持使用唱盤。在這種情況下，我們就少了一個競爭者，讓那些美妙的錄音帶播放機得以存在😄 如果他不聽，那就問問他，想像一下在車上使用唱盤——這是在CD播放器發明之前的事🤣。
16.
在我看來，我討厭黑膠唱片的爆米花裂響聲，我幾乎聽不到錄音帶的雜音，所以我選擇錄音帶。黑膠唱片在錄音時需要經過RIAA來抑制低頻，並需要在唱放階段重新生成原始音樂，這會在某種程度上造成與原始音樂形式的失配。設置一個唱盤系統就像是NASA的火箭科學，如果你想做到完美，幾乎所有的變數是錄音帶播放機的10倍。而Nakamichi的優勢在於它們的磁頭方位調整，能夠忠實再現錄製的音樂。
在聆聽錄音帶時，我更感放鬆，黑膠並不如錄音帶那麼方便。更具體地說，要播放一盤好的錄音帶，還需要定期工作，比如清潔磁頭、轉輪和清洗磁帶……
不過，製作一個好的錄音帶播放機並不容易，如果能生產出新的Dragon，我相信價格至少會在HKD$100,000以上。
我擁有HK Wing Sing Tsai Chin的「舊歌」錄音帶，台灣版的Tsai Chin「舊歌」錄音帶，最佳聲音來自我的Nakamichi 1000ZXL或Dragon。我的黑膠系統是Wilson Benesch ART TT和Koetsu Onyx碟針，並不高端，但算是平均水平。
你可能會問錄音帶播放機的聲音怎麼樣？
它溫暖、舒適、範圍廣、鮮艷、自然、愉悅且更立體…… 聽了才知道……
我的當前收藏：
Akai GX95
Braun C4
Harmon Kardon CD291
Marantz SD551
Nakamichi 1000ZXL X2
Nakamichi Dragon X1
Nakamichi CR7
Nakamichi CR40
Nakamichi LX5
Pioneer T-1000
Revox H1
Revox B710 MK II
Teac 112 Mk II X3
Teac V9000
Teac Z6000
Yamaha KX-1200
結論
就忠實再現的百分比而言，我認為首先是開卷錄音，然後是錄音帶，黑膠和CD。
HK Snob
Rev 1
Recently,
I have taken up collecting vintage cassette decks because I believe they can
sound better than vinyl in some cases. There are many vinyl enthusiasts who
often claim that cassette decks "eat" tapes and produce a lot of
hissing noise. Some even argue that even the cheapest turntable can outperform
my cassette deck.
I
recently posted a message on Facebook about vintage cassette decks, asking why
I still enjoy using them. I was pleased to find numerous supportive comments,
which reassured me that I am not alone in my appreciation for cassette decks.
Here
are some of the comments I received:
These
are some of the comment.
1.
Two wheels are better than one !
2.
Cassette are awesome 。
3.
No, he never has listened to a
good cassette deck. Maybe his experience is one of the early pre-recorded
tapes. I had a friend ask "who the hell listens to cassettes anymore"
I guess other than her ignorance, she had never listened to Mitsubishi Dragons,
oh well John Meyer in terms of what type of source we prefer to listen to, yes.
But to make an empirical statement that vinyl is superior to tape, particularly
a cheap vinyl setup, just reveals a deep ignorance of the technological facts.
4.
Correct! A friend -
self-confessed cassette hater, owner of some really high-end Hi Fi, listened to
one of my decks (average quality 1990s two head Yamaha) with a pre-recorded
cassette and was astonished!
5.
A well-recorded cassette on
quality tape from a digital source with proper use of Dolby NR (or dbx if you
like) can absolutely beat the sound quality from even the best LP on the best
TT with the best cartridge.
6.
Yes, simply like that: The
cassette sounds better (even at lower quality). Insiders know that.
7.
Cris Schulze just the
commercial World kill the good
Cassette music Media as no
one invest on manufacturing hin end cassette deck. I make mix tapes on my Teac
to play in my Toyota on my Blaupunkt. I earnestly don't care what anyone else
thinks about it.
8.
Some of my Cassettes sound
better than my Records, depends how it's recorded and on what system it's being
played on
9.
A good cassette deck, properly
aligned to the tape used, using high quality tapes and recorded properly from
any source, including vinyl, will produce great results. There could be
some minor trade offs, but excellent nevertheless. That's ok. We don't want
everybody to know what we know... 😉 I have some cassettes that
I recorded with my BEOCORD back in the eighties that still sound amazing. Bob
Hadden l was just listening to a recording of Love Over Gold made in 1984 on
fairly modest equipment and it still sounds great.
10. My first cassette deck was an Advent, which I enjoyed a lot. Then, I
got a Nakamichi, and enjoyed that, even more! I also added a dbx noise
reduction unit which really lowered the noise floor.
11. I’ve been slowly assembling my “retirement” system and decided
that the spot that the cassette occupied should be a digital server/streamer in
this generation.
12. I do still want something as great as the Nakamichi was and am
probably going with Aurender.ACS10. It comes with up to 24TB of storage and the
ability to rip all my CDs to that huge SSD drive so everything but my LPs will
be accessible from my listening chair. After all, this is the retirement
system!-)
13. Then we hope he spends a fortune buying audiophile grade stylus and
re-issues of popular LPs over and over.
14.
Whenever somebody says
something like that to me I just say "you are not doing it right".
15. Tell the guy that he's absolutely right and that he should stick to
the turntables. In that case we have one competitor less for the wonderful tape
decks 😁 And if he won't listen then ask him how he would imagine a
turntable in a car - that being before the CD-player was invented 🤣
In
my opinion, I dislike the crackling sound of vinyl, while I barely notice the
hissing of cassettes. Thus, I prefer cassette tapes. Records require RIAA
equalization to suppress low frequencies during recording, which can distort
the original musical form. Setting up a turntable for optimal performance is
almost like rocket science, and the cost can be ten times higher than that of a
cassette deck. The Nakamichi, with its magnetic head azimuth alignment, can
reproduce recordings faithfully.
When
I listen to cassette tapes, I find it more relaxing. Vinyl is less
user-friendly; maintaining a good cassette deck requires regular tasks like
cleaning the heads and washing the tapes. The drawback is that it's not easy to
manufacture a high-quality cassette deck, and if a new production lot were to
be made for the Dragon model, I believe the price would start at around
HKD$100,000.
I
own the HK Wing Sing Tsai Chin "Old Song" cassette tape (Taiwan
edition) and the Sanyo B series CD of the same title. It sounds best on my
Nakamichi 1000ZXL or Dragon. My vinyl system consists of a Wilson Benesch ART
turntable and a Koetsu Onyx cartridge, which is more of an average setup than a
high-end one.
You
might wonder how a cassette deck sounds. It’s warm, comfortable, has a wide
range, is vivid, natural, pleasant, and offers a more stereophonic experience.
You have to listen to believe it.
My
Current Collection:
Akai
GX95
Braun
C4
Harmon
Kardon CD291
Marantz
SD551
Nakamichi
1000ZXL x2
Nakamichi
Dragon x1
Nakamichi
CR7
Nakamichi
CR40
Nakamichi
LX5
Pioneer
T-1000
Revox
H1
Revox
B710 MK II
Teac
112 Mk II x3
Teac
V9000
Teac
Z6000
Yamaha
KX-1200
Conclusion:
In
terms of faithful reproduction, I rank the formats as follows: reel-to-reel,
cassette tape, vinyl, and then CD.
— HK Snob
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