I think warm up can be important (and if your CD player doesn't have tubes in it, I recommend you just leave it on all the time), but I am skeptical of the results you report. Cassettes copies are never that good, at least in my experience. When you say the cassette was a "perfect copy" of the CD, did you listen to the new cassette in the exactly the same way you listened to the one you made previously when you decided that it was imperfect? Or did you make this determination by flipping the Tape/Monitor switch on your preamp while you were making the second recording? Rapid A/B switching obscures sonic differences.
Importance of warm up. I hope this helps someone
I was checking a cassette I had made last month back to the original CD source for comparison. All my equipment had been on for 4-5 hours except CD player. I cued both up and the CD player was overly clear (bright) compared to the cassette made from the same source a month earlier. I thought well since this is a cassette I should expect some roll off in the highs after a period of time but not so soon. OK everybody. Im a cassette fan. I grew up with it and I know other mediums maybe are better. OK back to the warmup. I decided to let CD player warm up for 30 mins. I compared again and cassette was a perfect copy of the CD!!!. I can only figure the CD player was not warmed up. Everything else stayed ther same and was constant. I pay more attention to warmup now. I know it was important but I did not see how much until today.
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