The image in the ad is great. But that has to be the worst kerning I've ever seen. It's so bad I'm not even sure it can be considered kerning. Maybe someone just added a few spaces in between "high fidelity" and "tape" for no apparent reason?
My guess is that the image was intended to be displayed as a full-spread advertisement in a magazine, and the extra space in the middle makes the words appear the correct distance apart when viewed on bound pages.
Oh, thanks! And the ad was designed so that none of the important parts of the picture are in the horizontal center.
It isn’t kerning, it’s the space for the page binding in the magazine this was printed in.
The ad would have been originally printed across two pages in a magazine.