ВИНИЛ ГИТАРИСТА

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Certainly, everyone remembers and honors the compact cassette, and nothing more. On the tracker today, it's ALAC 24/48 and FLAC, but there are also higher-class decks available.

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Sure, if you already have a good high-quality deck, it’s worth keeping the equipment as a collector's item.

But in terms of sound, it just can’t compete with a decent turntable, let alone a professional reel-to-reel tape recorder. So, when it comes to enjoying analog bliss, you’ve got two options: go with vinyl or use magnetic tape at speeds of 38 cm/s.

Is the dynamic range greater for CDs or for compact cassettes?
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"Although the best compact cassettes have a dynamic range of only about 55 dB without noise reduction systems compared to the potential 96 dB of CDs, a compact cassette can sound better because the relationship between distortion levels and signal levels is fundamentally different for analog compact cassettes and digital CDs.

In the case of exceeding the signal level in analog recordings, the level of distortion is proportional to the square of the recording level. This means that if the volume level is increased by a factor of 2, the harmonic distortion (distortion) increases only by a factor of 4, and the ear may not even notice these brief distortions at the peaks. In contrast, with CDs, when the nominal signal level at the input of the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is exceeded by just 2-3 dB, nonlinear distortions can increase by tens of thousands of times."