DoctorWu51 asked,
| Do I need a second deck, or are there portables that have an RCA-type "line
| out" jack suitable for recording purposes?
There are portables with 3.5mm stereo line-out jacks, usually the Sony
recorders. Portable players and other brands of portable recorders will
usually have a headphone out and that's it.
If you have a deck, you could make your analog recording from the deck to a
portable recorder. However, maybe you meant that you're considering buying
a playback-only portable.
| I'm assuming that copying through a headphone jack would produce poor
| quality sound.
Not that I can tell. To my ears, a headphone output turned to maximum volume
is indistinguishable from a line-out. I've compared the line-out and head-
phone jacks of my Sony MZ-R3, and I've compared identical [except for fram-
ing, cough cough] recordings made digitally from the same CD track to two
different MDs [cough cough] playing in my Aiwa AM-F70, listening through its
headphone jack, and in my R3, listening through its line-out. I couldn't
tell a difference.
But I'm not Colin's chiropteran cousin.
| Do you have any suggestions about how to go about making MD to MD analog
| copies to get the best results in terms of sound quality?
Set the levels yourself so that they just miss clipping; don't rely on
automatic gain control.
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