Bluetooth DCC Tapes

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Is there any Bluetooth DCC tapes out there . Would it work ?

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Hi,

Not to my knowledge.

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I don’t think it is feasible considering how precise it needed to be.

At some point, someone will certainly be able to emulate DCCs, but only in heavily modified machines.

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Interesting question. I have thought about something like the tape adapters you used to be able to buy so you could put it in your cart cassette player and play CD’s from a portable player, but it’s just not practical to use the head of a DCC recorder as pseudo input. It would be prohibitively difficult to align a DCC head in the cassette with the DCC head in the recorder, and you would need to take the head for the cassette or of a working (or repairable) other DCC recorder.

If you just want to play music from your phone into a car stereo or home stereo there are much easier solutions. You can buy a device of Amazon that can function as Bluetooth audio receiver or transmitter, or both (I have one) and you can connect that.

I’ve seen some projects lately (and maybe some novelty products from China) that have a display and show an animation of a cassette while they generate audio on an analog head that objects the audio into the deck. In a DCC deck that would be usable (though not recommended because you’re putting a metal head right up against the DCC head which is fragile and irreplaceable). But you wouldn’t be able to see the animation anyway and the audio would be analog so there’s no point. If you have a digital source, you can just connect it to the digital input of the DCC recorder and tell it to generate 44.1 or 48 kHz stereo PCM (not Dolby or DTS) and you’ll be able to do with it what you want, too.

That being said… if I ever get time and space to work on my DCC-730 project again, where I replace the fluorescent screen by a color LCD, it will be almost trivial to put the entire collection of DCC cassettes from the Museum on a 2TB microSD card inside the recorder, including images of the covers, and play them by injecting them into the PASC I2S bus of the recorder.

===Jac

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