You misunderstood me Lex
What I meant to say was "I wouldn't know about Q9650 & Radeon card" because I never had anything more powerful than Q6600, not on S775 platform that is. Same thing with Radeon cards. Those ATI cards which I owned and/or used were primarily older, AGP models. In fact, the fastest Radeon I've had was X1550 PowerColor edition which I bought brand new, in 2007. Other than that, they're all nVidia models, ranging from 8600GTS, 8800GT, 8800GTS, GTX 550Ti and GTX 760. And older ... most of my AGP cards used in retro gaming systems are either GF2 or TNT2.
Therefore I really don't have any background, experience to comment on R7 and/or Q9650, hence "I wouldn't know" about them, nothing more or less
Well, yes - and no. Indeed, radio was a "product" of its own era, from back in a day. Yes, I can see the similarities with digital streaming, but you have to understand that the radio was limited by its technological limits, as there was obviously no "streaming services" back then. Besides, you could still record the radio on a blank tape & play back your favorite song whenever you wanted to, some radio stations even encouraged you to do so.
Where on the other hand, digital streaming was made like this on purpose, primarily to make money & limit, prevent folks from owning an album or a song. Why would you want to charge ONE time for an album & have people owning that same album forever, when you can simply provide an easy access to digital content & then revoke that same license after couple of months. That way customer has to pay AGAIN (and again), in order to play their favorite song or album.
Furthermore, digital streaming license dictates that you never really "own" anything and your license can be revoked, taken down for whatever the reason - or no reason at all. I have to be honest, I wasn't aware of this up until couple of years ago, when I entered a heated debate on Grand Theft Auto 5, and was explained by company representative that even though I bought the game, I don't actually
own it. Therefore they have the right to revoke my access to GTA V if they choose to do so, because it corresponds to streaming services & digital content. Which isn't the same with physical media ... when you buy something on a CD, DVD, cassette tape or LP, it's yours for as long as the media itself exists.
Nice! If you're referring to my post about "cheap Sony", I was actually talking about modern decks such as WR465. Although it may look high end from the outside, this thing is a piece of crap. It has two separate decks, but they both share ONE single motor, which drives BOTH decks at the same time. To make it even more absurd, each deck has 2 capstans because they're both auto-reverse, so one motor drives 4 (plastic) flywheels and take-up spool.
And if you record from one deck to another, things will get even worse as the motor will now drive 4 flywheels & 2 take-up spools ... all at the same time! I had one of these opened (and tested) and I can tell you that wow & flutter was all over the scale, there just wasn't enough torque to keep everything rolling consistently. Heck, even my KX-W4080 holds up much, MUCH better due to having separate motors & independent mechanisms.
