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Trying to find ELCASETTE would be like finding EDISON CYLINDERS.

Posted by grhughes on March 22, 2007 at 06:20:45

In Reply to: You obviously never heard a Sony Elcaset EL-7 deck posted by akai m8 on March 21, 2007 at 10:14:11:

But I'm sure there are those nuts who try. Yes, there were attempts at making 3.750 usable. Marvin Camras and the cross field head but this was guided by economy rather than quality. Slowing the tape impacts the SN ratio. Dolby just psuchoacoustically masks the noise. It doesn't reduce it. And it attenuates dynamics after so much diode rectification-compression and expansion at the expense of this masking. The more you spread the signal out over more tape the better, the wider the track the better. Tracks just got so small and the noise so bad that they had to use some form of noise reduction. Take any master recorded between 1957 and 1967 without Dolby on wide tracks and you will hear much more dynamic information before than after Dolby. It, like most things in engineeriing, is a compromise. Personally I would rather hear the noise with the dynamics than risk loosing the dynamics.
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