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> > marc lindahl:

> > In the long run, all hard drives are ticking time bombs, compared 
to analog
> > tape!  Just last week, we had some 1/4" tapes from 1979 in... they 
had to be
> > baked, then the splicing tape adhesive which oozed had to be 
cleaned with
> > q-tips and solvent, and finally it played back gorgeously!

  You must have liked the way it sounds, but are you sure about how 
close it is to the way it sounded in '79. Phasing, transients, and 
speed are a guess at best to what was originally printed after all 
that time.

  Plus after all that work, getting it to playback so "gorgeously", I 
hope you made a digital copy of it. Atleast on a cdrom, or even a hard 
drive somewhere.

df