Brian Gaff wrote:
Now, don't get all hot about it.
I have a dbx recorder or two here, and one can actually record bandwidth
limited squarewaves at higher levels. The one artefact you tend to see of
cours, is down to the finite time the processor takes to do things. You tend
to get level overshoots and undershoots and an obvious worsening of the
noise performance on louder recordings
I never really understood why everyone went to Dolby,

I remember when Dolby B first started appearing on cheaper Japanese cassette
players. It solved the hiss problem by simply slicing off everything above 8k.
Of course these days that wouldn't bother me...unfortunately