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Re: [ARSCLIST] Dolby B, et al and now ANRS
Tom,
That is essentially what I recall, too. There didn't seem to be much
audible difference between Dolby B and ANRS (and I believe there was
some version of Dolby on my deck, though this is stretching my memory
beyond reliable bounds). As it is now, the ANRS and even Super ANRS
cassettes sound OK played back in Dolby B or C without much hint of
breathing or pumping to my ears. I may search around on eBay for an old
JVC unit - it would be cool to find the same old deck I had - but it
would probably be more for nostalgia than any obsession over fine points
of noise suppression.
Regards,
Peter Hirsch
Tom Fine wrote:
If I remember correctly, ANRS was proprietary to JVC and was somewhat
Dolby B compatible although I think it was some way JVC worked around
Dolby patents. I forgot if JVC decks from that era had ANRS and Dolby
B. The only definitive answer will come from someone who has been
around a while in JVC's engineering department. Perhaps start with the
Tokyo AES chapter?
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard L. Hess"
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Dolby B, et al and now ANRS
Peter,
If you had a broken ANRS deck if the circuitry still worked or could
be salvaged you could wire it as an external processor as long as you
took care with levels, etc. Might take some reverse engineering, but
that is one way to go.
I did a quick Google search and some claims about Dolby compatibility
are floating around, but other claims of it sounding better than
Dolby doesn't make sense. I didn't find anything definitive. YICK
another NR system to factor in. That increases the permutations by
some number around 100!
Cheers,
Richard
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