Re: Tape Deterioration on NOS LP Tapes
The sticky shed problem seems to be largely down to a particular Dupont binder which most American manufacturers used at one time or another, mostly for standard play semipro/pro tapes. I would hope that Quantegy knew about this problem and were using a different binder. However, I've certainly heard horror stories about some Quantegy tapes. Googling will find lots of anecdotal stuff.
I agree that LPR35 and its later versions don't seem to suffer from SS. European tapes generally don't, but Ampex in particular became a de facto pro studio standard in the 60s, leading to desperate baking efforts to recover material 10-20 years ago as the SS issue became apparent.
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