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RE: Pre-recorded Cassettes

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In Reply to: RE: Sony R2R posted by M3 lover on May 28, 2024 at 05:53:02

"I was not impressed with many prerecorded cassettes."
"A problem with high speed duping?"

The vast majority of commercial pre-recorded cassettes were made on high-speed duplicates. As a music major in college, I worked part time in the A/V department, where one of my tasks was to made cassette duplicates of lectures. We had Telex duplicators which ran at (I think) 4X or 8X speed. Large commercial duplicators ran much faster. And therein lie the limitations. I wouldn't call them "problems", but rather, limitations.

Fortunately, many of the people buying pre-recorded commercial cassette music didn't notice or care about the marginal sound quality - they just wanted to play the Ray Conniff Singers or Twitty Conway or Classic Classicals in the car, even if they had to use a portable tape player to do it (but installing after-market car cassette players was big business in the 1970s and '80s!).

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