Cassette Tapes..Dolby B or C?

The question about whether the commercially available tapes were Dolby B or C encoded has already been answered correctly by many on the thread.

In my opinion the best way of getting the benefit from the dolby encoded disks was to record and listen on the same deck especially when it is precisely caliberated for playback and recording. The commercial tapes had variations, some sounded really good and some not really so.

I still have about 100 or so left with me from long time ago, and some sound pretty good. The TDK SA (High bias CrO2) and AD (Normal bias Fe) were the best in my opinion not only for the time but in terms of longivity. The SA and AD were my preference always.

I still have the Nakamichi 700 with me but it needs a bit of cleaning as I have had no time to do that.

I used the Nakamichi 700 Tri-Tracer for a very long time, my friend had the legendary 1000, it was good old days I must say the best times I spent really enjoying music with almost no resposibilities or worries.

Thank you for creating this thread, it sure brought back memories of the good times :-)

All this talk about, TDK, Nakamichi, Dolby has brought back fond memories, I think I am going to service my Nakamichi this weekend :-)

Tvad,

In my opinion the best ones were CR7A and 1000, the Dragon was a top deck but tempermental.