Recent content by Leandro

Hello again, here's a collage of pics depicting the tape speed experiment. You should track the pics from left to right, top to bottom. Hope it's clear. The cassette player was a Philips AZ1030 cd radio cassette recorder (nothing strange, just a common cassette player). Leandro

I appreciate, gmax137, for your comment, I hope this brings a little bit of light on the subject for me and everybody interested I was remembering right now some details of the test that might be useful and some other ideas: - the cassette I mentioned about the reel dimensions was a 60...

Sorry, people, I made a mistake (so far), when I said capstan I actually mean 'spool', as Wikipedia says: "an unflanged plastic cylindrical hub on which magnetic tape is wound in a compact cassette" In fact, it seems that there is a 'capstan', and it's a rubber wheel that seems to pull the...

[from now on, excuse me for my poor english] eehiram, I agree with your skepticism... I guess that a common, vulgar, typical cassette recorder or player, like a walkman, or the one built into an old hi-fi system, for tipical consumer music records, doesn't have the ability (control system)...