On Mar 12, 12:35 pm, DeserTBoB wrote:
On 12 Mar 2007 10:16:20 -0700, "duty-honor-country"
I'm not going to tell you how you screwed THIS argument up, Noodles.
It's obvious you know ugats around tape equalization.

sounds engineers don't worry about "tape equalization"- they move the
EQ meters up 3dB and keep recording


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.

the feedback for every tape says otherwise- you know the old adage- if
the customer is happy, everyone is happy

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.

those cars now auction in the millions $$$

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.

wrong- the 426 was put in the street cars, specifically to legalize
the engine for NASCAR and NHRA SuperStock racing- to this day the
Hemis dominate the fastest SS classes- SS/A- they also dominated
NASCAR until the latter blackballed them, by capping engine size to
355 CID in the mid-1970's

Hemi Darts are the fastest "stock" cars to this day in NHRA- for
nearly 40 years now running

not bad for a marketing failure, eh ?

see it here

http://www.nhra.com/2001/news/august/083104.html

http://www.nhra.com/2004/news/August/080502.html

http://www.nhra.com/stats/ss_record.html

stick around, I'll learn ya...

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.

Hemis eat Vettes and Caddys for lunch- the Hemi was an all-out racing
motor, custom hand-built in a lab by Chrysler, then mass produced on a
limited scale and shoehorned into street cars, to legalize it for
racing- NASCAR and NHRA had a 500 unit per year minimum rule at the
time- meaning at least 500 cars of each model had to be offered to the
public, to make it legal for racing- that's the ONLY reason there was
a 426 Street Hemi offered- Mopar had to sit out most of the 1965
season without the Hemi for that reason.


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.

reel to reel has no app outside the home either- most audiophile
formats don't- the real reason was, a sagging 1970's economy that led
cheap f-ks to buy cassettes instead- most guys that listened to
cassettes bummed cigarettes on a daily basis too...

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?

Dolby means less than nothing- the CD, SACD, and DVD-A formats don't
even use it- how important can that be ?


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

considering that reel, 8-track, and cassette are all dead meat now
anyway, what's it matter ? the smart money is on choosing the best
tape format based on the build specs, not only the tech sheet- i.e. 8-
track sounds better than cassette, Elcaset will sound better than
either, the only improvement would be open reel at 7.5 IPS or faster

get a load of that 15 IPS, 2-track setup- now that's a cooking with
gas, take no prisoners tape format, if ever there was one !