Re: [ARSCLIST] 1/4" tape player

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Scott,

I used the Dolby A tapes because they were the highest-quality master 
tapes I had available for this purpose.

One tape was <gasp> made on a ReVox A77, the other was made on I 
don't know what, but perhaps a Studer A810, but I do not know, 
really. I no longer have the second tape.

Also the A77 tape was one I made and was intimately familiar with. 
It's vinyl version received an excellent review in The New Yorker 
among other places.

This is typical of my incoming tapes as I never know what they were 
made on. By the way, the series of tapes I made on the A77 in the 
1970s uniformly sound better when played on any of the three machines 
in the shootout. It was interesting to hear the difference among the three.

Cheers,

Richard

At 03:48 PM 2008-01-07, Scott Phillips wrote:
> Richard,
>
> What type of machine actually made the recordings used for the test ? I
> would think that the small variations in the original record
> characteristics might lead to more or less tracking errors in the Dolby
> A decoders, when compounded by the playback characteristics of the
> different machines. Why use Dolby tapes at all ? Also, did you try 30
> ips as well..?
>
> Just curious as to your reasoning on these points, I'm not
> criticizing....
>
> Scott

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