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kitniyatran

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Only major downside w/ cassettes (besides store bought albums on cassette being inferior from the start) was the deck a tape was originally recorded on would remain the only optimal deck for playback. Hence your super high end decks all being open faced for ease of calibration. Being a big Live Led Zep collector for 40 years, I've been involved w/ several transfers of cassette concert master tapes that required a lot of major tweaking on various decks (nakamichi, tascam, etc) as head alignment is never absolute 100% dead on. And as mentioned, the longer the tapes, the more lag the tapes would have due to motor strain from the extra tape on the reel. (especially when remotely recorded w/ batteries) Believe me, pitch correcting a 3+ hr concert that gradually drags can be a major pain in the ass. (All being done by periodically checking the pitch w/ a tuned guitar!! And adjusting the deck's pitch accordingly) I do miss the days of getting a new show few others have ever heard and making copies for close friends and other collectors to trade with for something they had that I didn't. This was all back when 40-50 live Zep shows were all that circulated. The internet/digital changed everything. Today I have literally hundreds of shows...and multiple sourced recordings of many of them. And things are still being unearthed today. In fact, two never before heard Zep recordings fell from the sky just this week alone!! Crazy!! One from Amsterdam 69, the other Bloomington MN 1970. It never ceases to amaze me......and for me it all started on cassettes back in the late 70's/early 80's.
Once when I was running the sound system at church the daughter of missionaries on their fundraising furlough was going to play violin to a cassette tape accompaniment and she could tell the difference in Pitch between two sides of a dual deck because of her fine-tuned classically trained ear.
May seem Nit picky, but that girl could play.
 

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I liked TDK or Maxell. The ones that ended up disappointing were always BASF.

I was a Grateful Dead taper and trader back in the 1970s. TDK was the most reliable for me, with Maxell a close second. BASF was junk, as was Scotch or 3M.
 

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Answer to question @ post # 12

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JBL L-100 - mine had blue grills.
 
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