The RT-707 was a 1/4-inch 4-track, 2-channel stereo reel-to-reel deck. It featured four heads and three direct-drive motors, ensuring exceptional tape handling and sound fidelity.

To achieve this, each C60 cassette housed approximately 281.25 feet (85.73 meters) of magnetic tape, which measured 1/8 inch (3.81 mm) wide and 16 µm (0.0006 inches or 0.0159 mm) thick.

It even ran at a linear speed of 15 inches per second, which is an analog audio recording tape speed. Because of its thickness and rigidity, it was not nearly so subject to the varying time base ...

Some audio critics claim this is the highest fidelity ever captured on 1/4-inch tape. That may be so, considering that each album is a first-generation copy dubbed in real time, at a leisurely 30 ...

Standard tape recording formats for 1/4-inch analog tape as used by the Ampex Corporation. Dimensions listed are in mils. Digital recording also uses magnetic tape as a storage medium, such as digital ...

Audio tape was a beast to deal with. It was recorded and played on open reels of spinning quarter-inch tape, tape that would have to be threaded ever so carefully through an array of little cylinders.