Maxell 1/2" tapes .. They do exist!!

[evm1024]

What are your sources! Show us those Japanese citations. Of course I think that gap is very precisely defined as far as heads go....

http://www.jrfmagnetics.com/tapeheadintro.html

 

[Beck]

I would have thought of a language a bit more obscure than Japanese myself. But then he would have to explain how the unwritten language of Western Yugur became the official lingo of the recording industry. Oh what a tangled web we weave...