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Radio cassette with Dolby
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Re: Radio cassette with Dolby -
03-28-2007
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Dave Plowman writes Peter Twydell wrote: Being an old-fashioned sort of bloke, I want a cassette player with Dolby, . Any manufacturers who still make cassette players don't mention the good doctor's name on their websites, so I can't find out what has Dolby and what doesn't. Most don't bother because the noise level in a car is such that you can't hear the Dolby pumping. I *think* I can hear the difference.... |
The high pitch and crackles are pretty obvious to me without Dolby.
Incidentally, I must say in the last 15-20 years the music reproduction in
the car has so improved that now I prefer listening to certain kind of music
inside the car. Yes, honestly! Maybe the electronics or the acoustics have
been finally so finely tuned for in-car reproduction, inside an enclosed
small chamber, that now for surround sound effect and in full blast, it's
even better than the audio system at home. It's more a total immersion in
sound and the powerful emotion that this provokes. For one thing I have no
anxiety that the sound level may upset the neighbours.
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Lin Chung.
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In message <4eca5df714dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk>, "Dave Plowman (News)" dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk> writes In article <Pd3kPhOI1VCGFwDX (AT) twydell (DOT) demon.co.uk>, Peter Twydell <peter (AT) nospam (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote: Being an old-fashioned sort of bloke, I want a cassette player with Dolby, . Any manufacturers who still make cassette players don't mention the good doctor's name on their websites, so I can't find out what has Dolby and what doesn't. Most don't bother because the noise level in a car is such that you can't hear the Dolby pumping. I *think* I can hear the difference. But I'd feel inclined to join the 21st century and get a CD player. ;-) I do have a portable CD player with adapter, but also lots of cassettes that have not yet been transferred to CD. Thanks to all for their suggestions and help. |
use the cd autochanger much more often than the tape deck.
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Mercedes 190E Auto
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Currently listening to "The Dead Class - Boo"
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In message <SZqjemC$piCGFww$@twydell.demon.co.uk>, Peter Twydell peter (AT) nospam (DOT) demon.co.uk> writes In message <4eca5df714dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk>, "Dave Plowman (News)" dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk> writes In article <Pd3kPhOI1VCGFwDX (AT) twydell (DOT) demon.co.uk>, Peter Twydell <peter (AT) nospam (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote: Being an old-fashioned sort of bloke, I want a cassette player with Dolby, . Any manufacturers who still make cassette players don't mention the good doctor's name on their websites, so I can't find out what has Dolby and what doesn't. Most don't bother because the noise level in a car is such that you can't hear the Dolby pumping. I *think* I can hear the difference. But I'd feel inclined to join the 21st century and get a CD player. ;-) I do have a portable CD player with adapter, but also lots of cassettes that have not yet been transferred to CD. In that case by far the best thing to do is to digitise your tape collection now, before the quality deteriorates or the tapes get snarled. You can then do a straight burn to disc of the resultant WAV file and hence get one CD per tape, or compress to MP3 format and get several tapes on one CD. Dumping the tape to HD also allows you to sort out any noise problems with the original before burning to disc. Please feel free to contact me if you want any more details of how to do this. |
down the list of things to do. We move here 16 months ago, so the list
contains repairing the fence, fixing the plumbing, getting the satellite
dish mounted, sorting out the garage so I can find my tools, setting up
and connecting the sound & TV systems, etc etc. Earning money to pay for
this place also fits in there somewhere!
--
Peter
Ying tong iddle-i po!
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Peter Twydell wrote: Dave Plowman writes Peter Twydell wrote: Being an old-fashioned sort of bloke, I want a cassette player with Dolby, . Any manufacturers who still make cassette players don't mention the good doctor's name on their websites, so I can't find out what has Dolby and what doesn't. Most don't bother because the noise level in a car is such that you can't hear the Dolby pumping. I *think* I can hear the difference.... The high pitch and crackles are pretty obvious to me without Dolby. Incidentally, I must say in the last 15-20 years the music reproduction in the car has so improved that now I prefer listening to certain kind of music inside the car. Yes, honestly! Maybe the electronics or the acoustics have been finally so finely tuned for in-car reproduction, inside an enclosed small chamber, that now for surround sound effect and in full blast, it's even better than the audio system at home. It's more a total immersion in sound and the powerful emotion that this provokes. For one thing I have no anxiety that the sound level may upset the neighbours. |
Dolby switched off, and it's amazing what the difference is.
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Peter
Ying tong iddle-i po!
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"Peter Twydell" <peter (AT) nospam (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:Pd3kPhOI1VCGFwDX (AT) twydell (DOT) demon.co.uk... The Grundig SC303 in my Cav has just gone doolally and won't tune in any more. 'Proper' SC303s with the removable display (as opposed to the later ones with a separate dash display) are impossible to find. Being an old-fashioned sort of bloke, I want a cassette player with Dolby, . Any manufacturers who still make cassette players don't mention the good doctor's name on their websites, so I can't find out what has Dolby and what doesn't. There are dozens of radio cassettes on eBay, but rarely mention the noise suppression. Does anyone have any info on what units do have what I'm looking for? -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! I have a spare SC303, there is a minor mechanical fault (screw fallen out IIRC) on the tape player, you could repair it or swap your tape deck into it. I bought a new removable bit for it before I found out about the tape part. Radio is all fine, yours for £30 (cost of the front bit) Thanks. I'm working on a number of solutions ATM, but I'll bear it in |
daughter's Cav. This one developed a fault that kept draining the
battery.
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Peter
Ying tong iddle-i po!
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The Minidisc would have been an ideal replacement for cassettes in a car, but strangely didn't take off. |
planned a couple of years in advance, even if the technology isn't fully
developed at the time. Sony were all too aware that mp3s were the next big
thing, which is why minidiscs never really took off. If you can remember the
time in which they were advertised, it wasn't particularly effective or well
done. I have a friend who works for Sony UK, who's a marketing buff, who
explained why they never wasted the money promoting it heavily.
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In message <kR9nheArfjCGFwmM (AT) lgab (DOT) demon.co.uk>, leo leo (AT) lgab (DOT) demon.co.uk> writes In message <SZqjemC$piCGFww$@twydell.demon.co.uk>, Peter Twydell peter (AT) nospam (DOT) demon.co.uk> writes In message <4eca5df714dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk>, "Dave Plowman (News)" dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk> writes In article <Pd3kPhOI1VCGFwDX (AT) twydell (DOT) demon.co.uk>, Peter Twydell <peter (AT) nospam (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote: Being an old-fashioned sort of bloke, I want a cassette player with Dolby, . Any manufacturers who still make cassette players don't mention the good doctor's name on their websites, so I can't find out what has Dolby and what doesn't. Most don't bother because the noise level in a car is such that you can't hear the Dolby pumping. I *think* I can hear the difference. But I'd feel inclined to join the 21st century and get a CD player. ;-) I do have a portable CD player with adapter, but also lots of cassettes that have not yet been transferred to CD. In that case by far the best thing to do is to digitise your tape collection now, before the quality deteriorates or the tapes get snarled. You can then do a straight burn to disc of the resultant WAV file and hence get one CD per tape, or compress to MP3 format and get several tapes on one CD. Dumping the tape to HD also allows you to sort out any noise problems with the original before burning to disc. Please feel free to contact me if you want any more details of how to do this. I would love to digitise my entire music collection, but it's a long way down the list of things to do. We move here 16 months ago, so the list contains repairing the fence, fixing the plumbing, getting the satellite dish mounted, sorting out the garage so I can find my tools, setting up and connecting the sound & TV systems, etc etc. Earning money to pay for this place also fits in there somewhere! |
tape deck to auto reverse, set up your PC to dump incoming audio to a
WAV file (use Wave Repair for preference - free) and then go away and do
something else for an hour
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leo
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