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From: caf@cdi.UUCP (caf)
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Subject: Re: NX 40 ...
Message-ID: <289@cdi.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Jan-84 18:10:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 14 18:10:07 1984
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Some years ago, when I first got  a DBX disc decoder, I made some
experiments in dubbing the DBX discs to cassette tape undecoded,
and then playing the tape back through the decoder.  I found that
the music sruvived dubbing onto chrome tapes without objectionable
side effects.  Other types of cassettes generated annoying swishing.

Recently, I tried using DBX encoding (I now have a 128 unit) with a
JVC Stereo VHS VCR.  Again, the result with standard tapes was
terrible, much better with chrome.  The best results so far have been
with PD Magnetics T-160, whose thinner tape seems to give better head
contact than a T-120.

Unfortunately, the sound quality of available simulcasts in the Portland
Oregon area is so wretched that there is little advantage to be derived
from going theough all the fuss. In particular, the music (Opera
and concerts) is so severely compressed that repeated listening is
painful.  But the process did work well when dubbing from records to the 
VCR.  The only use I have found for that, however, is to overdub the
network announcers' drivel that accompanies pictures of space shots.
	From the corroded ears of Chuck Forsberg.

-- 
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX CDI Portland OR (503)-646-1599 cdi!caf