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The second-most-common speed for prerecorded reel-to-reel tapes. The speed specified for the 8-track cartridge, RCA cassette, Elcaset, Sabamobil, and HiPac formats. Used by some consumer multitrack machines using compact cassettes. Used later as "high speed" in some dual-speed professional compact cassette tape decks, such as the Tascam 122. 2 5.08
A reel-to-reel tape recorder (Sony TC-630), typical of a 1970s audiophile device. Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, also called open-reel recording, is magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording tape is spooled between reels. To prepare for use, the supply reel (or feed reel) containing the tape is placed on a spindle or hub.
A cartridge format for embedding and easy handling usual 3-inch-tape-reels with 1 ⁄ 4 inch tape, compatible to reel-to-reel audio recording in 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 ips. 1965 8-Track (Stereo-8) The inside of an 8-track cartridge Analog, 1 ⁄ 4 inch wide tape, 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 in/s, endless-loop cartridge DC-International cassette system
Equal to 8-track tape and Stereo-Pak, the tape runs at a standard speed of 3.75 inches per second (IPS). [5] This is double the speed of the Compact Cassette and half of the top speed of consumer reel-to-reel tape recorders, which usually offer both 3.75 IPS and 7.5 IPS speeds.
This was a consumer, or home format based on the much larger and more expensive professional reel-to-reel tape multitrack recording systems that had been built for recording studios by 1954. [2] Professional four-track machines used either one inch or ½-inch tape at a speed of 15 or 30 inches per second (IPS) for the highest quality sound.
This translates into about 5 megabytes to 140 megabytes per standard length (2,400 ft, 730 m) reel of tape. Effective density also increased as the interblock gap (inter-record gap) decreased from a nominal 3 ⁄ 4 inch (19 mm) on 7-track tape reel to a nominal 0.30 inches (7.6 mm) on a 6250 bpi [clarification needed] 9-track tape reel. [12]
Standard for Cassette tape. Common on portable reel-to-reel machines 9.5 3 + 3 ⁄ 4: Lower speed, common on full-size reel-to-reel and some portable machines 19 7 + 1 ⁄ 2: Common on full-size reel-to-reel machines 38 15 Higher end of prosumer machines, lower end of professional machines 76 30 Highest end of professional reel-to-reel machines
Sanyo Micro-Pack 35 tape recorder showing cassette being inserted. The Sanyo Micro Pack 35 was a portable magnetic audio tape recording device, developed by Sanyo in 1964, that employed a special tape cartridge format with tape reels atop each other. [1] The unit was rebadged and sold as the Channel Master 6546 [2] and the Westinghouse H29R1. [3]
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