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Old 23rd Jan 2021, 10:20 am   #69
Ted Kendall
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Default Re: Cassette tape types

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Originally Posted by TIMTAPE View Post
...an Achilles heel of all non Nakamichi head designs: omitting a pressure pad lifter. A shame perhaps that Nakamichi and the other manufacturers didnt come to some sort of agreement on its use in non Nak decks.
Quite so, but without the semi-hyperbolic face grind and guttering of the Nakamichi heads, sufficient tape-to-head contact may not have been maintained.
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