Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site trsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!trsvax!mikey From: mikey@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Re: HiFi VCRs Message-ID: <55100068@trsvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 23:23:00 EST Article-I.D.: trsvax.55100068 Posted: Sat Jan 5 23:23:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 01:42:32 EST References: <341@tymix.UUCP> Lines: 28 Nf-ID: #R:tymix:-34100:trsvax:55100068:000:1504 Nf-From: trsvax!mikey Jan 5 22:23:00 1985 I just picked up my Beta HiFi today. It has a special position on the audio selector switch for FM. It switches in a filter to get rid of that last little bit on pilot that may cause problems with the noise reduction circuitry. My receiver even has a switch to do the same thing. In addition, my receiver will blend the left and right at the top end when this is on. It does wonders to reduce hiss and distortion on bad FM stereo. Also, some people have commented about some of the HiFi decks "breathing" when recording stereo. I experimented with the "Street Life" album and only have a trace of this if I leave the ALC on. If I turn it off and use manual level controls, it's incredible. Absolutely the best recording device I've ever owned!!!!! As for the cable FM (i.e. MTV (see my previous comment)) it is usually so bad a quality that it is almost worthless. One of the guys here complained to the local cable company that his HBO was overmodulated so bad that it was distorting and that left and right were reversed. They kept taking his complaints for 8 months until a new engineer at the cable company agreed to look into it. It was just simple fixes, but it shows the pride in their product that most of the cable companies put into the FM. Face it, they are in the TV business, and most of the people who previously got the FM hookups had cheap little systems that couldn't tell the difference. Now with the publicity that HiFi is getting, that may change. mikey at trsvax