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RE: How often do you see someone admit to that in an audiphile forum?

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In Reply to: RE: How often do you see someone admit to that in an audiphile forum? posted by josh358 on March 16, 2012 at 08:35:43

Something like that. I am pushing the old brain cell here. It was some kind of pulse code mudulation but not the same as what came later. Also, it may have been 12bit not 14.

What I do not remember is any noise. I did not mention that I eventually copied some of my favorite LPs into this type of VHS audio. Aside from the issue of peak limiting, they sounded better than my best copies on metal tape audio cassettes. Problem was...finding a given piece in that long tape.

I wonder if I kept its manual in storage; I know it was still around 3 years ago. The player died in 1998 of natural causes. LOL!

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RE: How often do you see someone admit to that in an audiphile forum? - josh358 09:28:49 03/16/12 (0)
They may have added PCM very late in the game. Maybe in the vertical interval? I have a vague recollection of something along those lines. I think it would have been low bit depth logarithmic, limited to 15 kHz, that sort of thing, there's a serious bandwidth limit there and I'm guessing they didn't yet have economical DCT/Huffman encoding (as in MP-3).

You've jogged my memory, I had the same problem with VHS hi fi. Back in the day, I was thinking "Wow, I can record six hours of high quality audio for the cost of one VHS tape!" And then it turned out to be such a pain to get to anything that I abandoned the idea. Besides, I could use audio cassettes in my Walkman (not that I made many -- mostly tapes to travel with, or copies of stuff I only had on open reel, since at that point I no longer had open reel at home).

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