"Brian Gaff" wrote

I never really understood why everyone went toDolby,

Well Dolby came first!

it was terrible if the heads and eq were not exact, and was inherently
non linear in an obvious way. I would imagine if DBX had been adopted more
widely,

I never liked DBX, noise modulation was far too apparent for my liking.

people would have been a lot happier to have cassettes for home recording.


I fail to see how cassettes could have been *more* popular for home
recording than they were! People, by and and large were very happy with it.

David.