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Why didn't 8 track decks use 8 channel heads?

tourmax said:
Only reason I have one.

I remember Dad's favorite cartridge was ELO greatest hits. I remember him driving home at night in the Cutlass Supreme 442 with that playing while I laid on the rear package tray and watched the stars go by.

I hunted one down and that's all I play in my quad 8 track player.

"Kachunk"


Ah, memories.....:)

Was kinda fun rebuilding the old 8 track player too. It was different.
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Everyone should have a couple.

Mike

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gadget73 said:
Guy I used to work with told me about his switch from 8 track to cassette. I forget what song he specifically mentioned but it was one of those long ones that had a program change in the middle of it. He bought a cassette deck for the car and got the same album on cassette, only to find that apparently, they still split that song across 2 sides of the tape.

I don't know if thats a BS story or not but I thought it was pretty funny at the time.
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It might have been "Free Bird." I had the cassette and it was split in two sections with fade out/in.
 
At Telex, the reject rate with quad heads was not inconsiderable at incoming. They were 100% inspected and tested. This, compared to the stereo heads which were subjected just to the standard sampling protocol.

We were kind of in a constant battle with the Japanese vendor to supply us with good heads.

The whole head sub-assembly process , testing the raw head, getting the head mounted into its plastic holder, soldering the output wires to the pins, insulating all the pins with special shrink-wrap, and mounting that whole assembly into the deck, was quite the process.

Doug
 
Doug G. said:
At Telex, the reject rate with quad heads was not inconsiderable at incoming. They were 100% inspected and tested. This, compared to the stereo heads which were subjected just to the standard sampling protocol.

We were kind of in a constant battle with the Japanese vendor to supply us with good heads.

The whole head sub-assembly process , testing the raw head, getting the head mounted into its plastic holder, soldering the output wires to the pins, insulating all the pins with special shrink-wrap, and mounting that whole assembly into the deck, was quite the process.

Doug
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This post said it all. Note, even Quadraphonic-8 had issues with heads having high reject rates. Doug G, I suspect every company who offered Quad-8 had the same problem (and the same Japanese vendors). Even Teac had higher reject rates on their 4 channel open reel machines from what I was told, than the 2 channel models (note, the 4 channel open reel machines were also considerably expensive for consumer audio tape machines in that era).
 
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