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From: derek2@garfield.UUCP (Derek S Keeping)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Walkman Type Tape Players with dBX?
Message-ID: <2788@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Apr-85 10:46:48 EST
Article-I.D.: garfield.2788
Posted: Sat Apr 20 10:46:48 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Apr-85 14:18:56 EST
References: <1115@rocksvax.UUCP> <625@ahuta.UUCP> <1272@watdcsu.UUCP>
Reply-To: derek2@garfield.UUCP (Derek S Keeping)
Organization: Memorial U. of Nfld. C.S. Dept., St. John's
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Keywords: DBX Walkmen
Summary: DBX PPA-1

In article <1272@watdcsu.UUCP> herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) writes:

>In article <625@ahuta.UUCP> rkl@ahuta.UUCP (k.laux) writes:
>>	Yes, please, someone must know of such a beast. I have been
>>looking for months. All I have heard (rumors) that it does exist
>>and might be available from AIWA or PANASONIC.
>
>i know that about two years ago, someone (dbx?) announced an addon
>battery powered box that plugged between the headphone jack and the
>headphones to do the dbx decoding.  whatever became of it, i don't
>know.

	Well I'm using mine right now. It's a DBX PPA-1, which I bought last
	summer, so they are probably still around. It's a nice little unit,
	about the height and thickness of my walkman II and adding about 3/4
	of an inch to the width. It comes with a belt clip, but I perminantly
	attached mine to the walkman's holder.

	It works very well with DBX tapes. You have to set the volume on the
	walkman to the correct level to feed the DBX, you then use the
	volume control on the DBX. It also has a switch which selects, bypass
	Type II (DBX), or type B which does a credable job decodeing Dolby B.

	The person who sold it to me also tried to sell me one of those little
	portable equalizers. Lets see now, I cand put my DBX, and Walkman on
	my left hip, and my external battery pack, and my equalizer on my
	right hip, and I can carry my Buck Rogers ray gun on my back. Now
	where do I put my D-5 I'm buying soon. :-)

	Seriously though, It is a good unit and doesn't take up much space. I
	wouldn't buy it if I were going out to get a new Walkman type unit,
	but it revitalized my old Walkman for a few more years. As for new
	units, I'm about 90% sure that Panasonic make walkmen (walkmans?)
	with  built in DBX.

				Have Fun...
				Derek S. Keeping
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