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In Reply to: RE: Article on Tapes I wrote posted by alias@hollowearth.org on January 12, 2009 at 00:57:53
but this statement is poorly written and/or factually incorrect:
"Audiophiles prefer not to use lengths longer than C60 for two reasons. The tape moves too slowly through the gate on the one hand (the quicker, the better the recording) and on the other the high-speeds unnecessarily strain the motors."
C60, C90, etc, is tape length only, but to get the higher recording times, the sacrifice is potential life. Some machines will "eat" any tape longer than a C90, for instance. I have used C90 for most of my recordings over the years, and found them to be fine, any tape length over that to be problematic.
BTW, tape speed on the vast majority of decks is fixed at 1 7/8's ips. ALL tapes, no matter what the recording and playing time, go the same speed past the heads.
Gene
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