On 12 Mar 2007 10:16:20 -0700, "duty-honor-country"
wrote:

On Mar 12, 11:15 am, DeserTBoB wrote:
On 12 Mar 2007 05:12:59 -0700, "duty-honor-country"

Speed isn't everything. Several other technical issues apply to go
toward overall "fidelity," Noodles.

Depends on what you're comparing it to- if you're using Philips
cassette at 1-7/8, speed can only help. That's a pitiful low speed.
8's are better at 3.75 IPS, but 7.5 IPS is better yet.

With regard to home audio using analog tape, speed is everything- the
problem is one can only go so "fast", it's difficult to find a home
recording machine with speeds over 15 IPS- most 1/4" 4-track decks
will do 15 IPS with the capstan sleeve- but lack the built in EQ for
that speed- Akai is one example snip

I'm not going to tell you how you screwed THIS argument up, Noodles.
It's obvious you know ugats around tape equalization.

"Faked?" Like your phony "alignment" tapes? LMAO

that's not what the buyer feedback says- you know the old saying, the
customer's always right. snip

No, they're not. Fraudsters like you fleece unknowing and
unsuspecting buyers. I've got emails from several of them complaining
about your fraud tapes, but most don't want to deal with it. I also
know you've had to write MANY "refund checks" due to your fake tapes.

I remember those things...another dismal marketplace failure.

since when is market success a measure of product capability ? snip

It's not. It's a measure of market success. No one in their right
mind would buy a 426 hemi for a street car, unless they were into the
car for racing. The 426 was a "pretige" leader for Chrysler...people
would talk about how great they were, then go down and buy a slant 6
or 318 Dart. GM did the same thing with the Corvette and the Eldorado
in the '50s....loss leaders to get "buzz" in the marketplace. Ford
did it in late '54 with the original T-bird.

The RCA system was a collosal failure for several reasons, one being
horrid reliability.

and then it was improved into the Philips and Elcaset- the latter
being the best version, from a technical standpoint- highest tape
speed, widest track width snip

Huge honking cassettes, no application outside the home, failure to
have a companion car audio product, the rumors of the coming
CD-A...all considered to kill Elcaset before it started. People in
the high end market already knew about the coming IEC standards
change, Dolby "C" and even the CD-A...why go for better tape
performance when other, more usable format changes were coming?

It is correct, though...based on format alone, with tape speed and
track width being the only factors, Elcaset was the highest fidelity
"prepackaged" tape format ever sold. If it had shown up around 1965,
they MAY have made some sales in the US, but the product simply showed
up too late.