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Grateful Dead Hour Shows: Transferred to CD's??

I have about 50 Grateful Dead Hour shows on tape recorded off of FM. They were all recorded on a Nakamichi LX-3, and many shows were recorded using Dolby "B" Unfortunately, the LX-3 is too bulky to transport, and also too expensive to ship (30 lbs boxed) I could buy either a used a Nakamichi BX-1 or BX-2 after I move and settle in, but I would have to find one in good condition

Therefore, my question is: could these tapes be tranferred to CD's, possibly even cleaned up or even re-equalized. BTW, many of the tapes offer some of the Dead's best performance over the years; some are just OK.

Unfortunately, it may be very expensive to professionally transfer the tapes. And I don't know if there are any quality "tape to CD" machines out there for sale. I really don't want to buy a transcription component that I will use only for a short period. ANY SUGGESTIONS WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED' Thanks, Jim

sunnyjim

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sunnyjim OP
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Raymonda, Thanks for the offer of assistance and advice. However, as Lloydc notes it will take a lot of work, and I am not hunting for a used Nak Dragon on AG or E-bay

However, Teac offers a tape to CD transfer player that is available through the H&S catalogue from New York city. They want $500 for the machine, but I am sure it can be had less expensively new, or used. One glitch is the device uses special music/audio blank CD-R. Standard CD-R's will not work. Though, H&S offers a 30 pack for $20

BTW, Ray, I see you have a Mitsubishi Tuner (circa, 1980-1985(?) I used to sell them when I was a audio salesman, and actually bought a used one for about $60. I then got it modded by a guy in upstate Pa. It sounded great.... and also looked great. However, FM blows anymore unless you live in a major metro area.

Thanks to all who responded so far
sunnyjim OP
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Raymondo and Zd542.... Thank you both for the advice. Ray if I need a particular GD show that I can't find, I will give you a shout.

ZD542. I am not that computer savvy, but I wish I had known about transferring by using a CD burner to transfer the tapes, I still have the tapes, but the Nakamichi LX-3 is gone. I just did not want to ship it with the rest of the load, so I gave it to a young guy who likes to tape local Hawaiian musicians off of FM..... Aloha for now!!!
sunnyjim OP
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ZD542, I mentioned above that Hammeker/Schemmer on line catalogue shows a Teac tape to CD machine to transfer audio cassettes to CD's. I assume this is what you mean by...."audio component CD burner....." The Teac is $500 plus shipping. The H$S catalogue online reviews of this product warn that standard blank CD will not work. Though H&S offers a 30 pack of blank CD's for $19.95.

I really did not want to spend $500 to transfer the tapes of Grateful Dead shows which are available on archive.org. Nevertheless, thanks for the heads up.
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