[78-L] Pre-recorded DAT..ever seen one?

[Stewart, Joseph R]

There's no indication on any of the Delta Music/Capriccio R-DATs as to whether they're 44.1 or 48 kHz.  If I had to guess I'd say the latter, but I have no way of knowing because, as I said yesterday, we don't have any working machines.  When moving from our old location on campus (2 old houses) to a brand-new classroom building in 1998-9, we had to store a crapload of older equipment, LPs, etc. in a warehouse in downtown Springfield... which later FLOODED in heavy rains in the summer of 2000.  Most of our R-DAT recorders were there in storage as we were transitioning to an all hard drive-based audio recording/editing system.  We used the Panasonic models Dave Lennick is so fond of... later bought a few piece-o'-junk Sonys that never worked right from day one.  And they're all that's left of our collection of DAT machines at KSMU.
       I found an old article on the Baltimore Sun's website from Nov.11, 1990, stating that Delta/Capriccio's commercial R-DATs were priced at a whopping $28 each!  We got 16 titles here at KSMU, including Marriner's Schumann Symphony cycle with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony; Ton Koopman playing Bach keyboard music; Sandor Vegh & Camerata Salzburg in Mozart; and jazz titles by Toots Thielemans and other, less-well-known players.  Catalog numbers for the titles we have range from "99 016" (Chamber Music for Trumpet played by Ludwig Guttler) to "99 210" (the Ton Koopman Bach album).  The jazz titles had an "88" prefix. Again, that's just for the 16 tapes Delta Music serviced us with--they released quite a few more than that.

Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897