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Originally Posted by Audioarchivist

What you listen to your music with isn't the question here,

Originally Posted by Audioarchivist

it is how to best transfer digital music to tape. Your preamps and speakers and whatever are great, but what's driving them? Monitoring a tape recording might be useful, but not essential. In this case, all that's needed is a good soundcard to get to tape and a flac player that he trusts. What is your analog to digital converter? I bet it's better than a Chinese made Acer laptop line out, too, right?

As I said, I used foobar to create the a playlist that time wise would fit onto a 7.5 reel using slow speed (3 3⁄4 ips)

I ran a basic male 3.5 > Stereo RCA cord directly into my pre-amp (a Mcintosh C28 at the time) and recorded using the volume controls of the C28 and line input of the TEAC 2300sx using unopened 7.5 Maxell Ud 35-180.


I ran the recordings level somewhat hot (+3 on the VU Meters)

Made Led Zep, The Who, Pink Floyd, reggae, classic rock, blues, etc... mixed tapes.

Remember, all of these albums were recorded onto analog tape any ways, so I am using a play back format that these recordings were intended to be played!