Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Cydrome Leader Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Why are capstan wheels different size? Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 03:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.1C936E810003F2001244403CF@news.eternal-september.org> <20u8eb1itdbhc6f54f39s63in8vl73tt2o@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1457840737 3019 166.84.1.2 (13 Mar 2016 03:45:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 03:45:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (NetBSD/6.1.5 (i386)) Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:402550 Phil Allison 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.