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Re: TDK used in the calibration of most cassette deck's?

Posted by soundnut (A) on January 20, 2006 at 08:33:11

In Reply to: TDK used in the calibration of most cassette deck's? posted by Nate B. on January 19, 2006 at 13:12:06:

Hi.

I have a manual to one of my tape decks at home (can't remember which one & I'm at work) which has the list of tapes used to calibrate it. There's a TDK, a Fuji, and something else. I thought it was odd that different brands of tape were used, but in hindsight they probably just picked the most popular tapes in their respective bias & tweaked the deck to those.

So, if only one of TDK's tapes were used and the other two types (since there's normal, CrO2, & metal) were somebody else's, then they could make the claim that TDK tapes are "used by 60% of the cassette deck manufacturers". But that doesn't mean that TDK tapes were 60% of the total tapes used, if you get my drift.

One of those things that makes you go "hmmmmmmmmm"...

Cheers,
Bobbo :-)

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