Golden Earring wrote: > Morning Doc! > > The inclusion of linear stereo on VHS tapes was actually a backward step > from mono in terms of sound quality because the two tracks (plus a > separation gap) had to be fitted into the fairly narrow portion of the > tape not scanned by the spinning heads used for the helical video (& > later embedded "hi-fi" stereo audio, as detailed by Arny above) stripes > previously used for the one mono track. Even at SP, the linear tape > speed on VHS was only about 2ips. This made the linear stereo audio > -*more*- sensitive to "drop-out" which was a major problem with all > analogue tape devices, & would make audio replay worse even via a mono > TV & increasingly so as the tape was repeatedly played. Don't even think > about long play in the context of linear audio sound!!
Yep. Although I never had one of these linear stereo decks I do remember how bad non-hifi mono audio was on VHS. I had a crap ton of compact cassettes, however, so I'm very familiar with a lot of the things being discussed here! (drop outs, Dolby NR tracking issues, print-through, stretched and dirty tapes/heads..) Ah, those were the days... :) Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
