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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
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Posted: Sat Jan  5 23:23:00 1985
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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