Re: Reel to reel revival?
Standard 10.5 inch NAB reels take 2400 feet of standard play tape, that`s 32 minutes at 15ips. 11 inch platters were available with 3000 feet of tape, if you were confident enough of your tape machine to risk it all dropping on to the floor.
14 inch NAB reels were used on instrumentation machines but rarely for audio, apart from voice logging.
The Solti recording of the Wagner Ring Cycle was recorded at 30 ips and runs to about fourteen and a half hours so about 25 miles of tape.
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