cheilek@cvl.UUCP (02/04/86)
I have one tape that screeches something awful - It's a
TDK SA90 about 2 years old. My deck is a Nakamichi BX300 (Dual
capstan). The tape makes a continuous screeching sound from the
mechanism itself (not from the the speakers). It doesn't make
noise in my cheap pioneer single capstan machine. Also, I took
the tape out of it's original housing and exchanged it with a
quiet tape. The noise followed the tape itself and the quiet
tape remained quiet even in the originally noisy housing. My
suspicion is that the tape picked up some sort of contamination
which causes it to slip in one of the capstans. Has anyone else
noticed this phenomenon? (I now use Maxell tapes :-))
--
Alan Cheilek
UUCP:{seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!cvl!cheilek AT&T: (301) 454-5858
ARPA:cheilek@cvl.UMD.EDU or cheilek@NRL.ARPApete@valid.UUCP (Pete Zakel) (02/20/86)
I've only noticed the screeching on pre-recorded tapes. Usually it comes
mostly from the mechanism, but sometimes is also transmitted through the
speakers. Most pre-recorded tapes seem pretty worthless.
-Pete Zakel (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!pete)