[Dixielandjazz] FW: FW: Hearing the music

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I'm not sure about your speed  question, Harry, but here's a guess:  The 
technology for making the heads  improved so much by the time audio cassettes 
came along that you could get up to  20 kHz at 1-7/8 ips.  At the time 
reel-to-reel machines were in use, head  technology wouldn't have been as far 
along.
 
    For a while, back in the 1960s, I  worked with 120 ips machines that 
pulled 2-inch tape, for high-resolution video  and multiplexed telemetry 
signals.  Amazing stuff.
 
    Wikipedia has a nice write-up on tape  recorders:
 
 
_Click  here: Reel-to-reel audio tape recording - Wikipedia, the free 
encyclopedia_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel-to-reel_audio_tape_recording)  

 
                                                                        Al B
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 6/19/2010 5:10:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com writes:

The one  thing that has never been explained to me though, is back in the
day's of  reel-to-reel tapes, we were told that for superior sound, one
should record  music at 7 1/2 ips rather than 3 3/4 ips and most machines 
had
both speeds  available.on them.

Yet, when audio cassettes came along, they were  recorded at 1 7/8 ips

Doesn't that kind of contradict the theory  applied to the reel-to-reels of
getting superior sound at the higher  speed?.

Someone once told me that professional studios even had the  capability of
recording reel-to-reels at 15 ips

I'm sure the answer  is quite simple and I will not be in the least bit
embarassed if it has to  be explained to me, otherwise I would not have even
brought up the  subject.in the first place