At 11:17 PM on 4 Apr 97, Frank Iuston said to Bonnie Goodwin:
 BG> Bottom line, if you have a Dolby deck and wish to record with it a
 BG> lot, select a tape formulation and length that you like, take it and
 BG> the recorder to your friendly neighborhood audio technician to align
 BG> for you to that tape formulation and record away in bliss!
FI> One question that crossed my mind :)
FI> The 3 head cassette decks which have one rotary control for
FI> calibration and the other one for bias which allow you to 
FI> match the deck to any tape you care to use - which option 
FI> is the most accurate for aligning your deck, these controls 
FI> or the tech adjustment?
It depends on how the deck is designed.  What you could do is to choose
three formulations and have the three postions set to corresopond by
the local technician; it may not be possible to get a completely "free"
choise of which three tapes the deck can be optimized for.
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