Pye had their own record label at the time and were looking at alternative technology but like many innovations this one never caught on...well not until digital storage used blank magnetic discs and a tracking head!

Never seen anything like this before so thought I'd share.

I once did consider DAT tape, it was a vary good format but expensive. I did get into Minidisc for a few years. there are so many different formats out there I could go on and on. Some good and bad, remember 8 track. I'll stop now or I will be up all night.

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I'm now thinking about radiogram cabinets and music centres.

My Grandad also had a Radiogram cabinet, I would have liked to have had it for myself, but didn't have the space. My dad had a music centre, on the cassette it had GECs noise reduction system which was said to be better than Dolby at the time. Mini-cd  - didn't that have a problem because it didn't conform to the Red Book standard? If I can remember rightly Sony were not happy. Talk about cassette Philips came out with the N2401 and it had a ski-slope attachment this enabled it play up to 6 tapes and play both sides and I think you could also programme it to play what tracks you liked. I would like to put a link to Pics or video but I don't know how to do this

Yes mini-CD was one f those curio items that could have been adapted for singles or EP's. I found quite a few radiograms in the local tip in the 1970's and 1980's, salvaging the old autochangers, amplifiers, and so forth. I turned a few valve radios in guitar amps too, bakelite blues! We had a lot of Philips gear because my father worked there but never the N2401, which seems astonishing. Philips also had a single ended noise reduction system called DNL for tape playback which reduced high frequencies in the quieter bits if I remember correctly.

Photos can be loaded into a post by clicking on the arrow. It takes a couple of stages and and there is a size limit but it works reliably. No sure about video, that might need external hosting... others may know more about this.

Don't know anyone who could house a pair of Tannoys like that but there must be some mansions owners, we can't all live in boxes.

If I remember it correctly it was as if magnetic tape had been 'spread' over a record, very strange! I can remember recording our voices on it and I didn't think it was as clear as the Reel to Reel tape recorder my Dad had. And I do remember thinking, why? 

It also reminds me that I haven't used my Sony Reel to Reel for a while, must see if it still works!

It was the TC366 that was in Bond - I think it was in Live and Let Die. I had one myself. Bought for a fiver from a jumble sale in my local village hall when I was 13. Sold it to my mate’s dad for a tenner. Doubled my money! 

Inherited it from my Uncle who worked at the Beeb. He was in the Engineering dept' at BBC Centre (White City) repairing their Ampex Video recorders, amongst other things. They were the size of a small room and used vacuum heads to keep the tape in contact, if my memory is correct 

The three "fiddle knobs" were needed to "adjust" the tracking, and I remember standing there like a different type of knob, trying to get the damn thing stable enough to leave with a teacher and class of kids. Tape wear was a problem as each reel was re-recorded every week, and played about ten times.

If you think that was fun, the LEA replaced it with the dreaded VCR. But at least that gave me a change of scenery - taking it to Leeds every two weeks to have it fixed!

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