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Brian-Gaff wrote:
However trying to make the domestic system sound reasonable without the
dolby crippled the system in my view. BX was far better and did not need
the hx bodges or very special tape. It did need tape with lower noise
and low modulation noise, and just as with Dolby, it could be
embarrassed by some solo piano pieces where one heard the his playing
along with the notes. The setting up of dolby was its downfall as tapes
were all over the place in their sensitivity and headroom crush
effects, never mind noise and the mechanical head alignment caused
aberrations which caused pumping effects.
It way after all non linear and frequency dependent.

The last version of Dolby (pro) was SR, and quite superb. Many didn't like
Dolby A, but SR was fairly universally loved - apart from cost of course.
Had analogue still been in use, I'm sure there would have been a cheaper
version produced.

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