i agree that it should have replaceable batteries and we can put in our nice rechargeable eneloops anyway
however if it has a belt i would assume you'll be able to open it to replace the belt so most likely the internal battery as well?
BUT replaceable batteries all day imo
It will obviously going to have a belt in it as it will use the typical Tanashin clone mechanism.
It's heavily modified according to Fiio, but it's still the same basic mechanism essentially, so it does use a belt.
As for opening it, yes this is yet another argument to put the case together with screws despite a belt will last more than the battery.
man dolby noise reduction sucks. literally. it sucks the life out of the sounds of cassettes. i always have it turned off on my walkmans, hifi cassette separate.
ill take hiss and that hard pumping analogue sound any day over dolby nr
Well, that's because for Dolby to work properly you need a few things:
- a properly recorded tape, meaning recorded on a deck with automatic/external calibration;
- the player needs to have the Dolby circuits properly calibrated, as Dolby is level sensitive;
- a perfectly adjusted azimuth: if NR is not used a slight misalignment can go unnoticed, however Dolby will emphasize that slight misalignement;
Any of the above not being met will render either muffled sound with Dolby or breathing artifacts (noise modulation).
Believe me, when everything is working correctly, Dolby is transparent and only thing it does is it reduces the noise floor.
Unfortunately, the reality is most of us never had properly recorded tapes (with calibration done on each individual tape) or calibrated players.
And in this scenario, of course Dolby will seem like it doesn't do what it's supposed to do.
A quote from Wikipedia: "The correct calibration of the recording and playback circuitry is critical in order to ensure faithful reproduction of the original program content. The calibration can easily be upset by poor-quality tape, dirty or misaligned recording/playback heads, or using inappropriate bias levels/frequency for the tape formulation, as well as tape speed when recording or duplicating. This can manifest itself as muffled-sounding playback, or "breathing" of the noise level as the volume level of the signal varies.".
Link here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_noise-reduction_system