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Re: Noob questions: NR & dB? (+ more)

Posted by krenzler (A) on February 20, 2007 at 21:24:43

In Reply to: Re: Noob questions: NR & dB? (+ more) posted by X-2000R on February 20, 2007 at 18:18:37:

Thanks. Played around with my JVC a little. My initial finding is that it clearly sounds best without any NR. I've only used one kind of tape though but it was pretty obvious. Dolby B/Super-ANRS lost quite a lot of treble energy. More than I would have expected (listening while recording - tape/source).

My deck has automated bias/equalizer so there's no manual tinkering available. Nice for a noob like me I guess. :-)

One peculiar thing though: The LED meter has 2 settings: Peak & VU. I chose Peak and recorded one side (max +2dB). At the end I flipped back to VU and suddenly the meter readings are entirely different. 7dB lower maybe. I have been recording way too low I guess (recording directly from CD-player). Why this huge discrepancy between the 2 settings? I can't find the logic in that.

I will only record & play on this machine and I plan to keep it. :-)

Thanks again.

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