Dr. Nakamichi's Dragon was perhaps design epitomy, but even that great machine is not likely to do too well considering the source tape:

Quote:

I recorded the show from CBC radio onto a cheap cassette deck.




IIRC, he goes on to inform us of a few other things as this thread progressed, that the tape itself was a cheap medical transcription cassette, which means it most likely is the cheapest ferrite for voice reproduction one could imagine, that the tape is also mono, which means that head azimuth is very likely to make little difference in playback, etc. etc. etc.

Head azimuth is very likely to be the least of the problems encountered here.


--Mac