RE: IML: 8 track tapes & Player

If the speakers are matched, the balance is correct; you don’t need a control, balance was provided in the recording process.

Since your speakers are shot, you’ll have to replace them anyway, regardless of which sound system you install. Maybe you should do that first, with a matched set, and see what the 8 track sounds like. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

As with the Beta VCR system, the “Apple” color TV system, the true HDTV system, and other breakthrough improvements in consumer electronics, the 8 track system lost out in a game of marketing and industry insider manipulation to technically inferior designs (the Phillips Cassette), and was lost to history even though it was a much superior system.

Dick Benjamin (who worked on the early Color TV systems before you were born!)

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Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:49 PM
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Subject: RE: IML: 8 track tapes & Player

this one i can say 4 sure after 30 years of sun the speaker R DOA. it sounds like a paper cup and string. and how do you balance the thing, all i see or can find is a fader for front to back.

I have 111 tapes they look OK and i have put a few in the player in the car they play is all i can say for them.

as for how is first I will E mail them off list. dont wish to have the subject-stopo after me If the deal falls thru i will go down the list of guys in order.

-------------- Original message from "Dick Benjamin" <dickb@xxxxxxxxx>: --------------

From your use of the word “exalting”, I assume you do not like the characteristics of the 8 track player.    To each his own.

In my case, we used our 68 to take some visiting family members on an all day excursion Saturday. These folks are not “car people” (to put it mildly!), but they were astonished at the sound quality of the 8 track system in the 68.   These folks were driving a new Lincoln big car (do they still call them Town Cars?) on their 3500 mile trip from Tennessee, so they are quite familiar with modern sound systems.

I think you might want to listen to it a bit before you throw it out! You might change your mind.

Dick Benjamin

From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of alan1416@xxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 7:36 PM
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Subject: IML: 8 track tapes & Player

Hello All

        In my new toy came a 8 Track tape. i have read some exalting the player. I plain on removing it, so if anyone would like it. it yours just the cost of shipping. also in the trunk was 4 boxes full of taps. mostly pop/rock, they can go with the deck as well or alone. same deal just shipping cost.

Alan Jordan

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