what is the make and year of youre grocery go getter and do you have any
pictures of it?

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"DeserTBoB" wrote in message
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On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 07:56:21 -0500, (lennon fan)
wrote:

yes, that particular album was very well recorded, and many of the songs
are really top notch. I can live without the free form guitar bit,
tho...
Glad you enjoyed many of your better tapes, those UK carts really are
pretty good, no? snip

No question...UK carts are, as a rule, much superior to US
counterparts. Canadian carts tend to be better dubbed as well, and
have the advantage of Dolby "B", but the disadvantage of fragile
plastic. However, if you can open the shells without cracking the
tabs, they seem to be relatively trouble free.

Pink shell ampex from the mid 70's always sounded like crap to me, Led
Zep is a disaster, the later black shell issues are much better IMO. I
think they were remastered. snip

I agree..."pink" Ampex anything appears to sucketh mightily, as did a
lot of Ampex anything. It's obvious that Ampex was pimping thier
vaunted name in the pro market to sell inferior crap in the consumer
market, as witnessed by those awful rebadged Teac RTR machines they
sold in the '60s and '70s.

On those pink shells, didn't they dub them at about 10,000x the normal
speed? snip

So it would seem! Ampex was one of the earlier developers of high
speed duplication, and they didn't quite get it right back in the 8
track era. Done right, high speed duplication works very well, and
sometimes works better in the bass region than real time at slower
speeds. However, Ampex dupe lines for ¼" and early cassette weren't
well known for flat frequency response or low distortion....in fact,
they were lousy, which left the market wide open for Viking and others
to clean up during the cassette era. However, the old 1950s Ampex
3200 RTR dupe lines were pressed into cart pancake duplication in the
'60s and '70s, and did a better job, although they too were using high
speed duplication, recording the pancakes at 15 IPS. The 3200 lineup
I saw cranking out pancakes in the '70s using all the original Ampex
stuff, except the line amps, which were Viking, and were specifically
made for 4X duplication, as were the Nortronics heads.

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