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"filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection"
How does a Canadian company file for an American-style bankruptcy? NorthernThunder 17:09, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
"Difficult to dub to tape"
This sounds suspiciously like one person's particularly idiosyncratic point of view. K-Tel albums were no more difficult to dub to tape than any other label's albums. Cassettes came in various running lengths, and it was easy to find tapes that could accommodate album-length source material without having to edit songs out, or be left with most of an unused side. 76.226.165.11 ( talk) 09:35, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I wrote that particular section - what I meant was that, if you only wanted certain tracks recording (as most people I know did), it was difficult to do properly.
Firstly, not all the track was on the album, in a lot of cases;
Secondly, the sound quality was quieter than most singles and artist albums - if you had faders on your sound system, you normally never needed to set them much beyond half-way, depending on system and also the quality of tape purchased - the likes of Memorex and TDK and even Maxell were usually reliable - but some people bought really cheap cassettes at something like five for a pound, in the mistaken belief that they were getting a bargain - even setting the faders at full blast, it still sounded quiet.
And, thirdly, the tracks were practically gapless - either you would cut it short at both ends or get a bit of the previous and next tracks - lent themselves to discos quite well - just stick on something with the word "Disco" in the title and just leave it run.
It wasn't the tape lengths I was thinking of - in fact, I wrote pretty much what I have just said - but some of it had been edited.
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Cheers.— cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 10:11, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
The introduction of this article reads like an advertisement for the company.
Far worse, it completely fails to tell the reader what K-tel is. I hope someone knowledgeable will fix this, and get rid of the advertising. 2602:306:CF5D:1270:D0EB:750:38B3:7859 ( talk) 18:12, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
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"filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection"
How does a Canadian company file for an American-style bankruptcy? NorthernThunder 17:09, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
"Difficult to dub to tape"
This sounds suspiciously like one person's particularly idiosyncratic point of view. K-Tel albums were no more difficult to dub to tape than any other label's albums. Cassettes came in various running lengths, and it was easy to find tapes that could accommodate album-length source material without having to edit songs out, or be left with most of an unused side. 76.226.165.11 ( talk) 09:35, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I wrote that particular section - what I meant was that, if you only wanted certain tracks recording (as most people I know did), it was difficult to do properly.
Firstly, not all the track was on the album, in a lot of cases;
Secondly, the sound quality was quieter than most singles and artist albums - if you had faders on your sound system, you normally never needed to set them much beyond half-way, depending on system and also the quality of tape purchased - the likes of Memorex and TDK and even Maxell were usually reliable - but some people bought really cheap cassettes at something like five for a pound, in the mistaken belief that they were getting a bargain - even setting the faders at full blast, it still sounded quiet.
And, thirdly, the tracks were practically gapless - either you would cut it short at both ends or get a bit of the previous and next tracks - lent themselves to discos quite well - just stick on something with the word "Disco" in the title and just leave it run.
It wasn't the tape lengths I was thinking of - in fact, I wrote pretty much what I have just said - but some of it had been edited.
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Cheers.— cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 10:11, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
The introduction of this article reads like an advertisement for the company.
Far worse, it completely fails to tell the reader what K-tel is. I hope someone knowledgeable will fix this, and get rid of the advertising. 2602:306:CF5D:1270:D0EB:750:38B3:7859 ( talk) 18:12, 28 September 2017 (UTC)