i saw this post this morning but i couldn't remember if my tapes had a delay or not,havn't used them much in recent years.so i sat down and played them.i have johnny stewart,denise kirk and burnham bros tapes.there realy isn't any kind of consistantcy in the length of delay in any of them.some start almost immediatly and one has almost a 3 min delay.the 3 min one is a denise kirk coyote killing a rabbit tape.most of the kirk tapes have a 3 to 10 second delay.