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What would this father be saying to his son in 2013?
"See son stuff we had was EXCELLENT 20+ years ago and it produced MUCH BETTER quality than the trash offered now... Do whatever you can son to find and purchase older technology,THE EXPERIENCE IS WORTH IT"
Does that look like a young Donald Sutherland in the red sweater? 8 track was joke of the industry. All of the engineers recognized the multiple flaws of design - speed, crosstalk, clunky cassette issues. Back around that time I remember visiting the studios of the Canadian radio mother station and seeing what had to be some of the most gorgeous and sophisticated electronics of the era. A little company called McCurdy was making some excellent stuff, Macintosh had a pro line, and there were a few others. I never even had an 8 track. Went from 1/4" reel to reel directly to cassette. I did briefly consider quad stuff, but it was too expensive and the market for it was too unstable - besides, you need eight channels to define the corners of a listening cube.
Four-track was the precursor to the 8-track. I had a 4-track Muntz - or was it a Lear Jet - for the car back in the mid-60s. I tried to record my own 4-track loops off FM radio for the cartridges by recording 1 pair of tracks normally on my Sony 350 tape deck, then pulling the same tape back thru backwards to record the other 2 tracks. All 4 tracks run the same same direction on a loop cartridge. It wasn't very successful.
, Macintosh had a pro line, and there were a few others.
Really?
FWIW, there were several attempts to "cartridge" reel to reel tape - somewhere in the garage I've still got an "stereo Pak" cartridge (the original "cassette") - shoulda kept the player.
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