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Cassette Tapes..Dolby B or C?

I still have a tape deck in my system, and have a few tapes that are nice for quiet background music. The tape deck has a switch to select Dolby B or Dolby C (or none). There seems to be no marking on prerecorded tapes to indicate the type of Dolby processing. On a tape I was just playing B sounds about right. Should I assume that all prerecorded tapes are B unless otherwise stated?
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egoss
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Hi -

Yes, that is a logical assumption. To the best of my knowledge, no mass-produced cassettes used Dolby C. Dolby "C" and "HX-Pro" were found on many cassette decks, but never caught on in the prerecorded market. I also believe there was a Dolby "S" that came out just before the cassette's downfall began.

Ed
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