Scott Dorsey wrote:
Marshall Price wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
Frankly, I find the whole "tea as a health food" thing totally bizarre.
Drink tea that you like the taste of. Slow down and enjoy the tea. If
you are enjoying things, your health will probably be better. If you
are chugging gallons of crappy bottled commercial tea products, your
health probably won't be, because the benefit of slowing down and enjoying
the experience is missing.
I wish I had a Nagra. All I could afford was a Uher.

You probably can now... the Nagra III is basically worth nothing these
days and you can find a refurb unit for a few hundred bucks. And the thing
is, it still sounds damn good.

I did some work for a while with an original Report-L 4000, and I found it
could sound pretty good if you are very careful with levels everywhere in
the chain. Some of the cuts on the Balticon compilation album were done with
the Repoort-L and they don't sound bad at all if I do say so myself.
--scott

(Off topic: about old high-quality portable tape recorders.)

I recorded ocean waves breaking on the shore at 7-1/2 in/s on my Uher
Report Stereo and played them back at 15/16 in/s, and they sounded
amazing, like the sound track of a terrifying Hollywood tempest. When I
did the same of wine pouring from a jug into a wineglass, it sounded
like huge cathedral bells tolling. The room I recorded it in was a
rather large living room with a high ceiling, and I suppose the playback
made its linear dimensions sound eight times as large, and the
frequencies three octaves lower.

I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to record more bird songs, because
those I did were incredibly beautiful at low speed.

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Marshall Price of Miami
Known to Yahoo as d021317c