It was terrible to restore this tape at the wav encoding. After 20 years, the tape was as paste and it made the tape player dusty. Much of cleaning liquid was consumed. One of the tracks was not possible to recover completely, listen at Nostalgi at 0:30-0:38. U can also hear how the tape is slowing down a little on this track despite the professional player is very strong. B-Sound regrets that TDK master tape wasn't used instead, Americans just increase their profit by producing quick and dirty things. But, B-Sound must say, it was super in the 80's.

Anyway, although the tape is old, a clear difference between audio CD (44.1 kHz, 16 bits, stereo) and the 38 cm/s Ampex could be heard from the JBL speakers. The depth in the b-sound was replaced by a flat sound although the treble and the bass were identical. The audio CD was burned with Marantz Hi-Fi equipment especially designed for CD burning to audiophiles, but still a b-sounder could hear what crap standard audio CD is.
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