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In article writes:

WFMT sounded breathtaking in the late 1960s

For the Chicago Symphony recordings I was told they ran 30 ips 2-track 1/4
inch.

I would doubt that. Most broadcast recording was done at 7.5 ips,
2-track on 1/4" tape. If they really cared about quality (as
apparently WFMT did, for their symphony broadcasts) it was likely that
they used 15 ips, probably on an Ampex 350. 30 ips wouldn't give them
enough recording time for a symphony without piecing two reels
together, and 14" reels weren't all that common.

Ed Green (of the famous live recording truck) used to record an
orchestra in the National Gallery of Art in DC every Sunday night for
broadcast. He used a pair of Sony C37 mics and an Ampex. Sounded fine
then (though I was listening on a table radio at the time) and when he
played tapes of those concerts at one of the AES historical
demonstrations a few years back, they sounded fine then, too.

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