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tony sayer wrote:
One of the "great's" of audio has just passed away...

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

I met him once at TVC when there was an idea of Dolby processing video
coming out of the original 625/405 standards converters (mid 60s). It got
rid of the noise, but showed up nasty artifacts instead. His comment "Open
the window and all the **** flies in!"

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charles wrote:

I met him once at TVC when there was an idea of Dolby processing video
coming out of the original 625/405 standards converters (mid 60s). It got
rid of the noise, but showed up nasty artifacts instead. His comment "Open
the window and all the **** flies in!"

I'm sure you can forgive him Charles. He was, after all, an American.

Bill

"Bill Wright"
charles wrote:

I met him once at TVC when there was an idea of Dolby processing video
coming out of the original 625/405 standards converters (mid 60s). It
got
rid of the noise, but showed up nasty artifacts instead. His comment
"Open
the window and all the **** flies in!"

I'm sure you can forgive him Charles. He was, after all, an American.


** But he developed his ideas while studying at Cambridge University.

Story goes, he had a pair mic lines installed running from his room to the
nearby chapel that was used for musical performances - choirs and such.

The sound quality direct from the mics was, naturally enough, quite superb.

But when he used a 1/4 inch tape recorder, the playback was spoilt by noise.

He figured, there must be a way to fix this ....


.... Phil