"Phil Allison" wrote in
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"Eiron"
Phil Allison

"Bill"

Look at it this way Tony, someone cares enough to comment with
feeling and
due consideration on your postings. :-)


** He mentioned the N word in a fawning manner.

I cannot let bull**** like that simply go by.

To paraphrase Hermann Goring:

" Whenever I hear the word Nakamichi, I remove the safety from my
Browning
":


LOL!,, you just couldn't make that one up could you;!!..

OK .. promise not to mention kakered-a-michi again...

Cassettes were the end of hi-fi for the masses,
and the Nakamichi 600 was just the thin end of the wedge.


** LOL.

For the non cognescenti - the Nakamichi 600 ( from 1976) was wedge
shaped.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4243426...7627635786590/




.... Phil


**** me ... a demented Shackle-Jangler ... what will they think of next?

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 was at an APRS show in the 70s and intruduced him to Stefan Kudelski
who was interested in using Dolby in his Nagras.

Ashley

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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Phil Allison wrote:

"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 was
quite impossible to polish a turd.

Something else you know nothing about. SR was truly wonderful.


Indeed it was. The 361 was pretty remarkable too for 1966 :-)
The first units were about 6U tall, with several cards in a row
vertically. A rack of single channel units for 8 track record and
replay (state of the art in those days) stood floor to ceiling! This
was long before the CAT22 card was introduced.

Ray Dolby had invited both EMI and Decca to joint partership in his
S/N "Stretcher" project. EMI had their own "Compander" under
development (which never saw the light of day as a commercial
product), although there were interesting demo sessions at the
EMI lab in Hayes.

Ray Dolby was certainly one of the "greats" of audio.

Iain

"Phil Allison" wrote in message
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24 track, 1 inch (so called) studio machines with even smaller track
width.

The industry standard for professional 24 track machines was 2 inch.
Studer, Ampex, Scully, Lyrec, 3M etc.

1" was the studio standard for 8 track,
starting in 1955 with the famous Ampex "Octopus"
used by the remarkable guitarist Les Paul.

Four tracks on half-inch was used in the (Ampex 354)
and four tracks on 1" for Studer J37.

A J37 with Dolby SR is still, even today, a pretty
amazing recorder.

I wonder what the studio machine 24 tracks on 1"
to which Phil refers above, can be?

Iain

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Jim Lesurf wrote:
There was a rather strange tribute to him on R4 earlier today where they
spoke to his name-alike popstar. He did a good job of demonstrating how
Dolby-B could help cut down intrusive tape noise of audiocassette.

Were you listening on a good system? I was, and I'm near certain it was
fiddled. Take an available decent recording (easy) and add some hiss
(easy) Finding a decent working cassette machine and decent cassette, not.



I still have a Tascam 122 mkII cassette machine, which was described as: "
the
de-facto industry standard professional mastering and broadcast cassette
deck"
:-))

http://images.search.conduit.com/Ima...start=0&pos=18

It has balanced connectors on XLR, a built-in oscillator for bias and
alignment.

I haven't recorded anything on it for years, but need it now
and again as a player for transcriptions. It still performs well.

Iain

"Phil Allison" wrote in message
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** Most were high speed dubbed in batches of a dozen or more from a long
loop of 1/4 inch tape containing a fifth or later generation copy of the
2T master.

It is true that cassettes were made in high speed dubbing systems.
There were labels in the UK which produced real-time (1:1) cassette
copies but these were more expensive.

The loop bin masters were, in my experience at least,
not fifth generation copies, but 1:1 made from original masters.
I have made hundreds of 'em :-)

Iain