Re: [AV Media Matters] Re-Evaluating Tape Mastering Stock

[umashankar mantravadi <umashanks@yahoo.com>]

--- rohre@ARLUT.UTEXAS.EDU wrote:
>Moderators Comment:
>How about coercivity? I would have thought that the
>newer higher coercivity
>tapes would have a lower level of print through
>almost regardless of tape
>thickness (at least relative to the higher energies)
>because the energy
>needed to print through would be much higher then
>that available to cause a
>state change.

i would like to see figures for the newer 1/4" tapes
regarding coercivity. i remember there were some
"chrome" 1/4" tapes some years ago, but don't hear any
more about them. have coercivity levels for spool
tapes really increased?

umashankar