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On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:53:02 +0100, Clive George
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On 29/04/2014 16:18, Johny B Good wrote:

[1] around the equivilent performance of a high quality cassette deck
with accurately aligned dolby level. Realistically, a C90 TDK SA tape
would only manage the equivilent of 700MiB of storage.


Really? That implies a C90 is capable of similar quality levels to CD,
and I'd be very surprised if that was the case.


What you seem to have overlooked is the extra 18 minutes of run time
compared to a 74 minute CD (C90s were typically 46 minutes or so each
way).
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Regards, J B Good