Thread:John Leonhard's Dad/@comment-889116-20130602035116/@comment-1514297-20130606235721

Wow never heard of that particular head issue. There were some truly awful "things shaped like cassettes" around in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember a batch of Standard cassettes (think the prefix "sub" accidentally got left off) that shed oxide from the start, were very muffled and didn't have much of a pressure pad spring effect.

I have a few old decks I use to scrub off old oxide and then do the final rip on a Nakamichi which doesn't need these pressure pads on the cassettes and actually pushes them out of the way.

I've been listening to the Dec 1982 tapes over the last week, I have quite a few mixtapes from 1983 where I missed the track details so I'm looking forward to anything you have from that era!

Stuart