[78-L] the 'deadest' consumer audio formats?^

[David Lennick]

On its way to you by Priority Post, "Tribute to Ken Griffin". Inline, but you 
can provide the staggering.

dl

On 5/27/2011 4:25 PM, bradc944 at comcast.net wrote:
> My Otari MX5000s will play staggered-head tapes... but I have to be in a padded room for three hours after playing.
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> The only 2 track stereo tapes I've ever played (on a quarter track deck with the
> balance control turned somewhat to one side so that the tracks balance out) were
> inline tapes. I'm not sure where the 2 heads would have to be for a staggared
> tape to play properly. Even though I've seen a few staggered tapes on Ebay the
> inline tapes are more plentiful when they show up.
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> You're only set straight if it's an in-line head tape... I have yet to see a
> good repro from a staggered-head stereo release (without MASSIVE doinking with
> the head spacing...). The phase-shifting from those will well and truly give one
> Staggered Head Syndrome, which displays itself by the listener wandering
> aimlessly about the room, dizzily bumping into objects trying to find the true
> center of the recording.  Rumour has it that the East German Stasi used those,
> along with off-center recordings of Ken Griffin, to interrogate captured
> espionage agents from the West.....
>
> Brad