Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Serge Auckland wrote:
In practice, of course, double speeding a 1 7/8 ips recording may not
result in much deterioration since virtually no real to reel machine
was optimised for this speed - it was simply used for logging
purposes.
You're thinking pro. 1 7/8 ips was far from unheard of on domestic
machines.

Indeed. I recorded the audio of the first moon landing by putting a
microphone next to the TV's loudspeaker. Still have the recording, made
on a Geloso tape recorder, single speed 1 7/8 ips.

As I said used for logging where quality didn't much matter. ;-)
Would you have used 1 7/8ths for recording a prom?

As a schoolboy with nothing better, yes. The comment was made more to
illustrate that 40 years ago, there were domestic machines made that ran
at 1 7/8 ips. Geloso had a "hi-fi" machine that ran at a heady 3 3/4
ips. The Grundig, Truvox, Elisabethan machines of the era didn't set
much store by quality, just getting Auntie Mabel's voice back vaguely
recognisably seemed to be enough.

S.