"You are who....who you are"

Well, since you made it here, I guess I'll tell you a bit about myself... I am a 22 year old junior (that's right, found out I AM a junior!) at VCU here in Richmond, VA. I hope to one day earn a degree in Business (which division of business I still haven't decided)... I'm also a part-time teller at F&M Bank - Richmond, I'd give a link if they had a page, apparently they're still living in the past....I say everyone should try being a teller at least once in their lives, you'll never look at money the same again ....I used to work at Service Merchandise awhile back... My main interest I guess would be music, specifically my favorite band PEARL JAM:




Other favorite bands of mine include Soundgarden, Nirvana, AIC (though I wasn't very fond of their last album), Dave Matthews Band, Metallica, Tool, R.E.M., +Live+, etc...

My enthusiasm for music, especially for live recordings, is why I started trading tapes with fellow collectors....It's for when you like a group so much that after you have obtained all the officially released recordings, you still want to hear more....
I had been trading analog for about a year, and had built up a nice large list, but after recieving too many generated tapes not worth listening to, I decided (with the persuasion of friends) to make the jump to DAT. Now for some info about what this is....DAT stands for Digital Audio Tape, it is tape (similiar to traditional analog cassettes), but it's digital (like CD's). The tapes themselves are smaller then regular analog cassettes, in fact, they look like miniature VHS tapes, and they load in a similiar fashion. The greatest benefit of this format is that there is no generational loss like that of analog tapes....Think of when you copy an analog tape, the resulting copy doesn't sound quite as good as the original, does it? Then when you make a copy of that copy, there's even more quality loss...with DAT, you don't make "dubs", you make clones, identical copies of tapes made through digital connections, meaning no loss of quality or sound from generation to generation (if properly done with clean heads, error free tapes, etc., but I'm not going to go into that much detail)....
So basically now every tape I am getting sounds incredible, and virtually identical to the original recording...it's well worth the high price of admission to the world of DAT (decks range anywhere from $500 up to several thousand!) One last little DAT fact: you know how the typical analog cassette only runs about 90 minutes, and that's with two sides...a DAT can run either two or three HOURS continuous (no tape flipping with DAT)....

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