Comments on: Better Living Through Auto-Reverse

By: chris

chris — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:25:54 +0000

In reply to Tom Fine. haha yeah i had forgotten about this one. I teach a class at the Uni called 'television commercials' so I tend to be very keyed-in to /product benefit/ vs /consumer benefit/ as expressed in advertising narratives. Man i suuuuuuuuure wish I had kept a 1700. I had like three of those fkkrs at one point! Sold 'em all a decade ago.

By: Tom Fine

Tom Fine — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:51:47 +0000

Chris, this is one of your better posts! The ad is awesome! I had a Pioneer RT-707 and made some good 3-hour party tapes (3.5IPS, 1800′, quarter-track) in my day. I never bought into the splice-together MO for party tapes, mainly because it don’t work for quarter-track. I had a Numark “DJ” mixer and two Technics SL-D2 turntables, so I could “be my own radio station.” Thankfully, I spared myself future embarrassment by foregoing the temptation do add my voice to the mix! I probably still have some of the auto-reverse foil tabs around here.

The ultimate auto-reverse deck was the Technics RS-1700. One of those things with 3600′ of 3.75IPS quarter-track love nest muzak could make for a LONG night.

— Tom Fine

By: smokah-dehookah

smokah-dehookah — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:01:01 +0000

My dad was divorced in ’66 or so and his solution to romance music for his swingin’ bachelor pad -it was a highrise apartment building in Chicago’s Loop, and was furnished about like the one in Down With Love, the Ewan McGregor/ Renee Zellweger rom com- was a Sansui receiver with a modification to receive the SCA background music they had on a subcarrier from a local FM.

Laugh if you will, but he got laid a lot.