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Originally Posted by paulsherwin
There tends to be an audible 'crushing' effect with cassette recordings that you don't get with R2R, though there is a lot of variation between different tape stocks even on the same machine. I assume it's a combination of slow tape speed, thin oxide coating and narrow track width.
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Have you ever wondered why the frequency response of a cassette deck is normally quoted at -20dB relative to 200nWb/m? If you look at the response at 0dB it would look terrible with the high end drooping considerably. Cassettes can easily be driven into saturation at high frequencies.