[Vintage-Audio] Re Phil's Post

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Agree/disagree. Fast when compared to a standard cassette, yes. However,  the
studio models ran at 3 3/4 ips which would be about the cassette counterpart of
the reel to reels 15 ips. Nowhere near the audio quality, however!	
	
The industry tried several times to market a deck that used 3 3/4 ips instead of
the vastly inferior 1 7/8 ips, but the consumers would not support them for some
reason. So the game became trickery to make the never meant for music 1 7/8 ips
sound tolerable. The way some of the groups today sound all tha thiss and high
frequency clipping is a blessing!	
	
DBF	
 

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From: Philip Atchley <beaconeer@elite.net>
To: vintage-audio@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re Phil's Post
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:04 AM

Single cassette.  I know that the 3 3/4 IPS this machine runs isn't
considered "High Speed", not like the 15 IPS Teac decks I had stolen back in
'82, but that's what it says on the machine and it's fast for a cassette
<grin>.

73 from the "Beaconeers Lair".
Phil, KO6BB
>
> Single or dual cassette?
>
> BTW: on studio quality machines like this or the Sony L-Cassette deck, the
> standard speed was 3 3/4 IPS, it was not consider high speed. As you well
know
> Phil, 1 7/8 IPS was 'never' intended for music, just voice. The industry
has
> done a hundred tricks to make it sound reasonably decent.

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