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From: baxter@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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Subject: Needed: long recording times! Help
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Date: 8 May 91 12:46:59 GMT
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I have a Sony TC-758 10 1/2 inch reel-to-reel deck, which even Sony 
has been unable to repair (that in itself is a long story of 
incompetence on Sony's repair  facilities!).  However, I am looking
for something capable of recording several hours of music at a time
similar to my old Sony deck.

I have heard it mentioned that the relatively new Hi-Fi VHS video decks
record the audio track multiplexed with the video, giving the audio tape
speed an effective rate of over 100 ips, and therefore good frequency 
reponse, wow and flutter and other paramenters.

Other than  using a Hi-Fi deck, I don't know of any other means (except
for another reel-to-reel machine, which are getting hard for the average
consumer to find and get fixed!) of recording > 2 hour programs.  Auto-
reverse cassette decks aren't satisfactory, since the deck always seems
to run out of tape and reverse right in the middle of the selection that
you want to keep.

Are there any suggestions to this problem?

Kirk Baxter, University of Kansas
BAXTER@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU