many years ago, I tried to convince people it is worth producing a software PCM
F-1 decoder, using a low cost video card and a a VHS player (all our PCM F1
recordings are on VHS). I thought it would be simple, but nobody showed any
interest. Umashankar
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:34:17 +0100
> From: dave.mal...@york.ac.uk
> To: sursound@music.vt.edu
> Subject: Re: [Sursound] Sony PCM? (was Re: DTS Headphone:X)
>
> It is possible but I wasn't at all sure that it wasn't the ceramic
> resonator used in the oscillator. Sooner or later we may have to resort to
> writing software to do the job - assuming we can find working Betamax
> machines. Fortunately the encoding is very well documented in the various
> manuals, unlike some of the more modern systems.
>
> Dave
>
> On 29 April 2013 17:21, David Pickett <d...@fugato.com> wrote:
>
> > At 10:59 29-04-13, Dave Malham wrote:
> >
> > >A few months ago I had to sort out a PCM701 with one of my spdif cards in
> > >(the ones I used to do for Audio Design). We went through three PCM units
> > >before we found one that worked fully in replay mode (the original, one
> > >from the Uni and the final one, off Ebay). There seems to be something in
> > >the electronics that becomes increasingly unreliable with time in, I
> > think,
> > >the clocking circuits which I find very worrying especially.
> >
> > Is this perhaps (hopefully) just old Cs?
> >
> > David
> >
> > (Luckily I transferred all my F1 tapes to DAT, and recently to HD)
> >
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> disclaimer is redundant....
>
>
> These are my own views and may or may not be shared by my employer
>
> Dave Malham
> Ex-Music Research Centre
> Department of Music
> The University of York
> Heslington
> York YO10 5DD
> UK
>
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