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Were albums first released in 3 1/4 ips and if they were succesful they
were re-released in 7 1/2 ips? are there any other factors?

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what are the factors to release an album at 7.5 i.p.s

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what are the factors to release an album at 7.5 i.p.s?

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what were the factors to release an album at 7.5 i.p.s?

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On 25 Oct 2006 12:31:02 -0700, "rusty" wrote:

Were albums first released in 3 1/4 ips and if they were succesful they
were re-released in 7 1/2 ips? are there any other factors? snip

No. There never was a "3¼ IPS" speed, ever. Labels went to 3¾ IPS 4
track to save money on tape, no other reason, just like they went from
2 track to 4 track around 1960. In each case, quality went down
preceptibly, while profit margins improved.

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On 25 Oct 2006 12:39:56 -0700, "rusty" wrote:

what were the factors to release an album at 7.5 i.p.s? snip

Are you having some sort of problem like Nudo does, posting again and
again??? Asked and asnwered, already!

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DeserTBoB wrote:
On 25 Oct 2006 12:39:56 -0700, "rusty" wrote:

what were the factors to release an album at 7.5 i.p.s? snip

Are you having some sort of problem like Nudo does, posting again and
again??? Asked and asnwered, already!

no, just making corrections in spelling and grammar.

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DeserTBoB wrote:
On 25 Oct 2006 12:31:02 -0700, "rusty" wrote:

Were albums first released in 3 1/4 ips and if they were succesful they
were re-released in 7 1/2 ips? are there any other factors? snip

No. There never was a "3¼ IPS" speed, ever. Labels went to 3¾ IPS 4
track to save money on tape, no other reason, just like they went from
2 track to 4 track around 1960. In each case, quality went down
preceptibly, while profit margins improved.

I meant 3.75 or 3 3/4 ips

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On 25 Oct 2006 15:04:52 -0700, "Rusty"
wrote:

I meant 3.75 or 3 3/4 ips snip

Well...if you have a belt drive deck with a bad belt, I supposed it
could go at 3¼! :Þ

But no, there was no real determining factor about which group got
what speed, except that, at Columbia, their pop catalog went to 3¾ IPS
before their Masterworks classical releases did. This change happened
in the mid-'60s. Tape costs, as with cartridges, were the number one
cost factor on tape releases, and halving the speed effectively halved
their cost per unit.

I'm supposing the next question would logically be, "Is there a lot of
difference between 3¾ and 7½?" Yes...undeniably so. Halving the
playback speed on most machines cuts the high frequency response
almost by half (some better machines handled it a little better) and
increased the noise floor by a minimum of 6 dB assuming the same flux
density level was used. Also headroom is reduced considerably at the
slower speed, and many times the normal operating level (O VU level)
of flux density would be decreased by about 3 or 4 dB to compensate.
This also added to the noise floor but up to 10 dB.

Just from those number you can see how prerecorded RTR tapes decreased
in quality from those high quality Westminster, Columbia and Omega 2
tracks of the mid-'50s to the comparaitvely lousy 3¾ IPS 4 track of
later days. This is why original 2 track dupes from the '50s, even
though they've suffered the vagaries of time (brittleness and
self-magnetization) are prized by collectors, while the big hub 3¾
dupes are pretty cheap.

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rusty wrote:

what are the factors to release an album at 7.5 i.p.s?

i believe it had a lot to do with where you purchased the tape at.
i have a record-club copy & a retail store copy of the Who - Tommy.
the retail store version is a two tape box with the tape speed of 7.5 ips.
the record club copy is on a single reel & is recorded at 3-3/4 ips