I dumped a bunch of albums, and a few CD's, to Hi-Fi VHS. A while back, I stumbled onto a compatible VCR at a yard sale for a couple bucks.
Yes, those gaps are annoying as all get out. Tracking has to be dialed right in to recover the sound properly.
But, once you do that?
It's really great! Frequency response goes almost to zero, and up to 22Khz, and it's flat for most of that range.
One of the albums I recorded had a warp in it. When the actual vinyl was played on a good stereo system it was possible to see the speaker cones actually move in time with the warp. It's essentially a very low frequency signal.
Cassette does not reproduce that. I bet a good reel-to-reel system would.
Hi-Fi VHS reproduced it pretty much bang on perfect!
The best part was being able to add index marks! While recording, one could press a button and get one of those written to the tape. I had several tapes made with music I really like and could access pretty much anything on it quickly.
Yes, those gaps are annoying as all get out. Tracking has to be dialed right in to recover the sound properly.
But, once you do that?
It's really great! Frequency response goes almost to zero, and up to 22Khz, and it's flat for most of that range.
One of the albums I recorded had a warp in it. When the actual vinyl was played on a good stereo system it was possible to see the speaker cones actually move in time with the warp. It's essentially a very low frequency signal.
Cassette does not reproduce that. I bet a good reel-to-reel system would.
Hi-Fi VHS reproduced it pretty much bang on perfect!
The best part was being able to add index marks! While recording, one could press a button and get one of those written to the tape. I had several tapes made with music I really like and could access pretty much anything on it quickly.
Fun stuff!!