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Originally Posted by starbond
So it seems I have at least one tape that plays well, and quite well. Which again leads me to think the tracking issues are the tape itself, worn and brittle from years of bad storage. However one very interesting observations: every single one of the BLUE (VC100) tapes seems to have degraded much much worse than any of the ORANGE (VC120) tapes. I dont know if it was a different formula or a bad batch or what, but of the 5 blue tapes I have left, they all play poorly.
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Beautiful!
Is the oscillator tuned to work in monitor mode when playing these good tapes, or did you still need to tune it differently from monitor mode?
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Last edited by old_tv_nut; 11-05-2019 at 09:26 PM.
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