In article , Phil Allison
scribeth thus

"tony sayer"
Phil Allison
"tony sayer"

One of the "great's" of audio has just passed away...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24075429


** Great at what, exactly ???


The only remarkable thing that Ray Dolby ever achieved was to disprove the
widely held belief, among audio novices and experts alike, that it was
quite
impossible to polish a turd.


By that you mean Analogue tape media .....


** Not all, just the **** awful examples where Dolby was most used - egs:

Compact Cassettes with a track width of 0.7mm and speed of 4.75 cm/S
!!!!!!!!!




24 track, 1 inch (so called) studio machines with even smaller track width.

Dolby was a turd polish that made such utter crap usable, but only just and
only to uncritical ears.

Like yours.



** And those of a lot of other audio engineers world-wide...

Who by that logic must have been uncritical as well then;?..


But if it hadn't been for his noise reduction system a lot of recordings
around today would have been the worse..


... Phil





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Tony Sayer