I've listed manuy hundreds of pre-recorded tapes over the years and it made a pleasant afternoon checking these out on a Sunday afternoon, on my wonderful Tandberg 10XD, which includes internal Dolby B and is wonderful until it misbehaves!

This is one of a series of Black Label Dolby B encoded recordings, really excellent and much improved from some London / Ampex duplications that seemed to have been done on decks that needed recalibrating.

I think part of the improvement was the better tape stock that was available at the end of the tape era - this looks and sounds like Scotch 203, but we know Ampex wouldn't use that. The tape stock is not back-treated and will not go sticky. It does seem to have a tendency to behave as if it were staticy, but doesn't shed at all.

This is Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, performed by Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

It is on London LON E 46885 recorded in 4 track Stereo, Dolby encoded at 7 1/2 ips.

All tapes are play tested on one of my own tape decks before listing and I check for no signs of oxide shed during play or fast winding.

This quality tape will be shipped carefully packed via Media Mail or Priority Mail at your choice.

We have two copies of this album; this one is in good condition, with some splits on the back of the box; other, listing title ending in 1, is in excellent condition and is a few dollars more.

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