Johny B Good wrote:




Another fact, of some importance to analogue tape, is our relatively
high tolerance to intermodulation distortion.


** Not one bit true.


Even the professional
multi-track studio recorders, running at 30 ips could show routine IM
distortion levels as high as 30% on master tapes.


** That would be very audible.

Now you are just making stuff up.



..... Phil

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:24:47 -0700 (PDT), Phil Allison
wrote:

Johny B Good wrote:




Another fact, of some importance to analogue tape, is our relatively
high tolerance to intermodulation distortion.


** Not one bit true.


Even the professional
multi-track studio recorders, running at 30 ips could show routine IM
distortion levels as high as 30% on master tapes.


** That would be very audible.

Now you are just making stuff up.


Not me. I was quoting what I learnt from 'learned' articles from
either "Hi-Fi Magazine" or "Studio Sounds" magazines I _used_ to
subscribe to back in the mid 70s to early 80s.
--
J B Good

Johny B Good wrote:


Another fact, of some importance to analogue tape, is our relatively
high tolerance to intermodulation distortion.


** Not one bit true.


Even the professional
multi-track studio recorders, running at 30 ips could show routine IM
distortion levels as high as 30% on master tapes.


** That would be very audible.

Now you are just making stuff up.


Not me. I was quoting what I learnt from 'learned' articles from
either "Hi-Fi Magazine" or "Studio Sounds" magazines I _used_ to
subscribe to back in the mid 70s to early 80s.


** But only half remembered, seriously misquoted and missing all the context.

Qualifies as " making stuff up ".



..... Phil

--
J B Good