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Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> wrote:
> John Larkin wrote:
> 
>>
>> 
>> All those mechanical means of reproducing sound - wax disks, tinfoil,
>> shellac, plastic, wire, tape - were all awful.
>>
> 
> ** There was one genuinely hi-fi, analogue tape recorder available to the public. The Hi-Fi VCR, which came in Beta and VHS versions. 
> 
> Recordings were made with a pair of FM carriers in the MHz range. S/n ratio approached 90dB while all the other shortcomings of tape were rendered negligible. Up to 6 hours recording on one cassette too. 
> 
> Some studios used them as master recorders cos they outperformed R-R machines  by such a large margin.
> 
> Odd how they never caught on in this role. 

I was taught the same thing about the HiFi VCRs. Never did any testing 
with it though. Reel to reel units were more fun to play with.

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