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From: paisley@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Scott Paisley)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Cassette Deck inquiry
Message-ID: <349@nbs-amrf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 13:23:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 25 13:23:40 1986
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> In article <709@ur-helheim.UUCP> rajiv@ur-helheim.UUCP (Rajiv Arora) writes:
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >        After much waiting and saving, I'm finally  ready  to buy
> >myself  a  decent cassette deck....
> >        I own a CD-only system and I want to get a  good  quality
> >deck   to   record borrowed CD's.
> 
> No specific deck rcommendations, but you may want to look for a DBX cassette
> deck because the DBX system allows you to record almost 80 DB of sound with
> very good signal to noise ratio.  For those of you who are not familiar with
> DBX, the process logrithmically (sp?) compresses the signal during recording
> and decompresses it during play back.  Since the compressed signal has very
> little dynamic range it can be recorded at a fairly high level, and thus the
> signal to noise ratio is very good.
> 

I agree very much.  I have a Nak BX-1 (which is now the BX-100) and
with that I have a DBX-40 encoder/decoder.  This is the same DBX unit
that is offered from DAK for $59.00.  I ordered from them and
received it about a week later!  My college library also uses the Nak
BX-1 and they have been over worked/used and still have not failed
once.  For the money the BX-100 is your best bet, and you can kick up
to about 90db with the dbx box.  As for only having two heads, I
really can't see justification for the 3rd head for an adverage home
system.  If you decide to get a deck with dbx already built in, DO
NOT get a Techniques deck.  I have had one, (it failed after 2
years and 1 day) and several of my friends have HAD them, and they
too died.  Good luck on your quest!

Scott Paisley