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| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6321 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 10 of 37 08 June 2011 at 5:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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If the tapes are not especially valuable, you can use them
as is. With a suitable player, they still have a few advantages over digital devices, although they are quite bulky if you have a lot of them. The Sony tcm 150 or 200 are good portable players for language study. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6024 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 11 of 37 08 June 2011 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
I totally agree! The Nakamichi players were state of the art in their day. I think new they were something like $500-$600 bucks. I picked a mint one up off of e-bay a while back for $50 bucks. I use a cord called the i-Mic to hook it up to my computer ( also obtained for pennies). I then rip the tapes into Audacity. Audacity is amazing. There is a noise - removal function which is invaluable for removing hiss from those old 1960's FSI courses. There are several other functions which can improve the sound quality dramatically. ( Equalizer, Compression, Hi-Pass, Low-pass etc) You can also slow down or speed up the audio which is key with certain recordings. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kappa Groupie Japan Joined 5315 days ago 99 posts - 172 votes | Message 12 of 37 08 June 2011 at 2:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Nakamichi! I smell 80s... I remember once seeing a Nakamichi cassette deck sold at like five grands and hoping to get one of those some day. I was young.
I myself have a little old Victor micro stereo that plays CDs and cassettes. I hook up my laptop to the speakers and watch movies and play some music with it. I could digitalise tapes although I think I will never need to since audio recordings nowadays come on CDs or you can buy MP3 files through the Internet (unless I decide to study Hungarian or any minor language in Japanese, as I'd be buying books from a certain publisher that insists on using tapes... and sell them at considerable prices....) I recommend Sony. (Something like this.) Walkman all the way! (Sadly they have decided to stop making them for cassette tapes.. in Japan, I don't know about other countries.) And here are the Sony TCM-150 and TCM-200DV cassette players/recorders DavidW mentioned above. Edit: Is "digitalise" a word? Edited by Kappa on 08 June 2011 at 4:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kappa Groupie Japan Joined 5315 days ago 99 posts - 172 votes | Message 14 of 37 08 June 2011 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I didn't expect to see it again! Man, it's been a long time. Good to see you! I'll have a good time with a couple of drinks tonight reminiscing. Unforgettable, that's what you are...
Thanks a lot for this, paranday! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5248 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 15 of 37 08 June 2011 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
According to Oxford Dictionaries it is, as an alternative to "digitise": http://oxforddictionaries.com/search? searchType=dictionary&isWritersAndEditors=true&searchUri=All &q=digitalise&_searchBtn=Search&contentVersion= WORLD Edited by tractor on 08 June 2011 at 5:29pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5248 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 16 of 37 08 June 2011 at 5:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
Really? What are those advantages? 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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