Cassette singles with Dolby S NR?

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Posted on June 26, 2004 at 12:12:47

rtbarr
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A Salvation Army thrift store near me has a good many cassette singles. I almost passed on them until I noticed some of them seemed to be recorded with Dolby S. I bought two Take 6 singles and a Stevie Nicks single, and they sound great with Dolby S noise reduction. ($0.50 each)

My question is how common are these? Anyone else listened to them?

I never saw Dolby S on a prerecorded cassette before. Were there many (any)full lenght cassettes with Dolby S?

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not very many... doomed from the beginning

danny kaey

08:44:58 06/27/04

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not very many... doomed from the beginning

danny kaey

08:44:58 06/27/04

not very many... doomed from the beginning, posted on June 27, 2004 at 08:44:58

danny kaey
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As I recall there were great many plans made for Dolby S; one of the main quoted benefits were the fact that you could (supposedly) playback Dolby S encoded tapes with very little degradation in sound quality through a regular Dolby B decoder. The premise was that by the time "S" came out, "B" was so proliferated that Dolby figured most people could get the benefit of "S" encodings through virtually any stock of tape deck they had; ie. "B", including their walkman's, car's, etc...

Problem was that by the time "S" came around, few decks had adopted it (though oponents of the system claimed it was unnecessary) and Sony' MINIDISK was being launched with a fanfare... hence very little prerecorded "S" tapes were ever made and that was that! :)

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Cassette singles with Dolby S NR?

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