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- From: Jonas.Palm@orgk3.lu.se (Jonas Palm)
- Subject: Re: What happen to dbx?
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- References: <1993Jan22.194204.12111@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:05:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.194204.12111@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
- sr001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (s. satya vardhan reddy) wrote:
- >
- >
- > What ever happen to the dbx noice cancellation. I believe that it is still
- > better than Dolby S or Dolby HX Pro. I bought two tape decks with it in the
- > middle 80's but I don't even hear of it anymore.
- >
- > sr001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
-
- In the compact cassette world, DBX noise reduction is dead.
- It does live on in the professional environment, at least to some
- extent.
-
- DBX NR has one advantage: it lowers noise a lot.
-
- It has also several disadvantages:
-
- It gives very audible noise modulation, especially if the recording
- channel has high noise levels, i.e. crummy cassette decks with bad tapes.
-
- It emphasises the problems cassette tape (and open reel) has with reduced
- recording level tolerance in the treble and bass, the bass being really
- awkward with some material, as it also leads to unmasking of the hiss
- at higher frequencies. (Ex, lone string bass, bass guitar, organ, drums
- etc.)
-
- Frequency response errors makes the expansion side mistrack. Because of
- the fixed band, all spectrum nature of DBX NR a frequency response error
- in one area of the spectrum makes the expander modulate the signal in all
- other parts of the spectrum as well.
- In tape recording, the bass is eq'ed up in order to lower the hum
- sensitivity, and the trebled is also eq'ed up in order to avoid tape
- noise. Now if you have problems with the frequency response in these
- areas (and you very often do) then the strongest signals in the music
- can be modulated due to response errors where the spectral content is
- less strong. This is hard to explain understandably, but the main thing
- is that it isn't enjoyable to experience.
-
-
- Dolby S (and SR) avoids _all_ these problems. (HX Pro is not properly a
- noise reduction scheme)
-
-
- However, given a recording channel with reasonably low noise to start with
- and a flat frequency response, DBX can work very well indeed.
- It is just not the norm with consumer cassette decks, unfortunately.
-
- Jonas Palm
-