In all this discussion of playing back various forms of magnetic
recordings using older used decks, I wonder if very many people ran into
my problem?
At my company's location in Hollywood, they originally had an Ampex reel
to reel recorder/reproducer (a 350, I think), but gave it away before I
came to work as their archivist. By the way, an excellent web site
showing many generations and manufacturers of such decks is:
http://www.phantomprod.com/vintage.html
I finally realized that the Scully was running
slow compared to the original transcription which I knew was "on" by the
strobe on the side of the turntable. Unless a person has perfect pitch
(I don't, although I read music and have sung, professionally), you can
be fooled by what sounds to be an accurate reproduction. The speed
dropped the pitch about a half-step, and over a half-hour show added
about twenty seconds.to the running time.