Tab Julius SEZ -
> Hmmm. The technology wasn't huge, but the tapes were, and 1/8th of an inch
> clearance (as has been reported) seems pretty tight.
>
> Still... an 8-track in an MGB seems kind of sacreligious. It's not like
> it's a pickup truck with empty Budweiser beer cans in the bed and a bumper
> sticker that says "Gun control means using both hands" on the tail! :)
Well, up until the very late 70s, 8-tracks had a definite audio
advantage over cassettes (which I first saw in a car in Germany
in 1976). It wasn't until the advent of chrome tape and Dolby
that cassettes were able to overcome the 8-track's 3-3/4 ips
tape speed. And commercially made cassette tapes usually had
absolutely wretched sound from being duplicated on high-speed
bin systems.
I guess as someone who came of age in the 8-track era, I don't
have any negative associations with them. They sure sounded
better than the monaural FM converter a friend had in his Mustang,
which fed the signal back through the AM tuner a la home VCRs!
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