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In article <TONYB.93Jan20071952@sampson.juliet.ll.mit.edu> tonyb@juliet.ll.mit.edu ( Tony Berke ) writes:
>fromm@rock.enet.dec.com was, amongst other things, looking for
>a source of reference cassettes.  I just recently purchased
>several tapes, Dolby Level, head height, speed reference, azimuth,
>and a frequency response tape.  I got them from RCA test tapes,
>108 Montichello Rd, Weaverville, NC.  Their prices seemed pretty
>low compared to what I was expecting -- most of the tapes were about
>$20 each, except for the frequency response tape, which for some
>reason was quite a bit more.

>Perhaps the rest of you guys can fill me in on the relative value
>and quality of these tapes, but so far they seem like a pretty good
>deal compared to getting the  same things from Teac, et. al.

Rumor has it that the RCA tapes are "junk"  The only way to find out
though is to compare them directly to a known good product from MRL or
STL.

Good luck Tony,  if they check out I may be in the market for a couple
of them!

Oh and the way that I have found best to set head height is to smear a
bit of grease pencil on the head in question, run some scratch tape
across the head then look at the residual grease.  You can visually
see if the tape is centered on the head as well as checking the tapes
footprint on the head.  That gives a lot of info: back tension, wear,
etc.   Don't forget to clean the heads after you are done!

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