[Five]

out of the frying pan, into the fire

if its microcassette it could feasibly be better, but only if an external mic was used. microcassette also means it can only be mono, but while mono isn't preferable it can still be very listenable. a microcassette runs half the speed of a cassette, so it might be something like half the freqency response and double the noise. and chances are if the person is recording on a non-typical rig they are probably also using the built-in mic which is speech-quality and picks up motor noise. the mics the lp4 guy used are half-decent, worlds above a stock dictaphone mic.

in other words, the lp4 md recording is most likely the better of the two, unfortunately.

this is 2006 and it is a very famous band so imo there has to be another better source out there somewhere. shake down some uk radiohead tapers for a trade, there's probably guys online right now who taped it and haven't finished the transfer yet its only been about 2 weeks.