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adjusting tape heads by ear with a screwdriver and headphones after
half a liter of red wine, just forgettabout it.

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:17:39 -0500, Forgnog Zambrucken
wrote:

adjusting tape heads by ear with a screwdriver and headphones after
half a liter of red wine, just forgettabout it. snip

Despite what Charlie Nudo, our resident lamebrain says, "turning up"
the azimuth on a multi-track tape machine "by ear" using a commercial
tape of music is a crap shoot...it might get you close, but it'll
never get you right on the money. The only way to do that is with a
REAL alignment tape, such as the Nortronics AT-230 or the STL or
Marantz carts, all of which have been discontinued for years, but
still show up on eBay. The AudioTex "duplicated" tape was far lower
in quality. The fakes of that particular tape made by Charlie Nudo,
aka 66fourdoor, are worthless frauds, and will misaligned your
machine. The "Aspen Deck Tester" is almost as worthless as Nudo's
fakes...don't bother bidding.

Your options are to keep bird dogging eBay to find a real tape, or
make your own, using a custom tape pancake made by Magnetic Reference
Laboratory of Livermore, CA. That's what I did, and it's the standard
of reference for my cart lineups. It also proved what a sham Charlie
Nudo's fake carts are.

dB

that, and you're a foreign hacker scumbag- get back across the parallel
where you belong, in that communist ******** country you came from