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On 10/23/2011 09:39 PM, Leigh Dyer wrote:

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> I had actually been thinking about trying exactly that -- I do have a

> good quality hi-fi VCR here still, despite the fact that I haven't

> used it in years -- so I set it up yesterday and gave it a go. I

> hooked my laptop up to the VCR, played the track while recording, then

> swapped the connectors around, rewound the tape, and recorded the

> audio from the VCR back in to the laptop.

>

> It's amazing just how clean the signal from the VCR is. In fact, it's

> so clean that it sounds identical to the original audio to me.

> Comparing the signals in Japa, I can see a sub-50Hz hump in the VCR's

> audio, and a slight roll off above about 10KHz. There's clearly some

> stuff going on in the time domain, too, but it's very subtle, and I

> definitely can't hear it myself.

>

> So, an interesting exercise, but perhaps a pointless one :) I can

> upload the audio if anyone's curious and wants to do their own

> comparisons, though.

>

I had actually been talking about normal audio tape (1/4" half-track).

Hi-fi VHS is built a little differently, and I'm not sure it responds

the same, or how the media itself compares to audio tape (Ampex 456, for

example).
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