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From: leichter@yale-com.UUCP (Jerry Leichter)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: KLH anyone??
Message-ID: <1705@yale-com.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-Jul-83 09:19:43 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  3 09:19:43 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 4-Jul-83 07:24:02 EDT
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I never had a KLH turntable, but I have a KLH tape-deck!  This was a product
that never caught on; designed to have some of the features of expensive decks
but still be cheap.  Thus:  Three heads, but the head pre-amp doubles as the
mike pre-amp, so you can't monitor off the tape.  Dolby - this was their big
selling point - but of course Dolby never caught on for consumer reel-to-reel
(oops, forgot to mention this is a reel-to-reel machine).  Since you can't
monitor off the tape anyway, they only had to put in one pair of Dolby
circuits...  Interesting circuit design:  The high-level inputs are fed through
a voltage divider and into the mike inputs!  (So, of course, no mixing...)

I bought this thing used back in 1976 or so for something like $75.  It's never
really worked right, but I've kept it around as a classic - who ever saw
a KLH tapedeck?
							-- Jerry
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