Tbh of late I have never tried to tape any vinyl but I have taped hires streaming.
On 2 cassette decks and one r2r.
In all instances the taped replay of the hires stream sounds more alive,warmer, fuller and just more musical.
Now you can say it is distortion and that’s fine,I really do not know or care.
As to tape hiss, on my older Akai cassette I can hear slight hiss inbetween tracks at elevated levels but even in quiet passages I really cannot say as I hear any.
That is not to say it’s not there of course,just that it is not obtrusive to myself.
But even on my cheapo Sony r2r it is near impossible for me to detect any tape hiss recorded from hires streams onto Ampex tape ( all I have right now).
On 2 cassette decks and one r2r.
In all instances the taped replay of the hires stream sounds more alive,warmer, fuller and just more musical.
Now you can say it is distortion and that’s fine,I really do not know or care.
As to tape hiss, on my older Akai cassette I can hear slight hiss inbetween tracks at elevated levels but even in quiet passages I really cannot say as I hear any.
That is not to say it’s not there of course,just that it is not obtrusive to myself.
But even on my cheapo Sony r2r it is near impossible for me to detect any tape hiss recorded from hires streams onto Ampex tape ( all I have right now).