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Thanks for the kind words Larry.
Just like when I first decided to get back into reel to reel, I always thought that the Barclay-Crocker tapes had a lot more in them than is generally thought. And like a few other members here, I went through a number of Dolby decoder units and found that they were all either edgy and hard sounding or muffled and veiled sounding. Neither genre had any soundstage to speak of and they robbed the tapes of that rich midrange that I love magnetic tape for.
After unsuccessfully trying to find someone to modify and upgrade one for me I finally decided to do it myself. It involved endless trial and error upgrades (over 2 years on and off) and Larry has the results.
The unit does pretty well with BC tapes but on some other brands, it does a fine job of showing just how important it is to have high duplication standards. The BC's also have the advantage of having a calibration tone included. From my experience, I don't think that it's necessary to have the calibration spot on but it does need to be close ( the spec is +/- 2dB).
I've still got some fiddling around to add a little gain for our tube repro gear but for balanced in and single ended out, it's finally done! Yippie!
Oh shoot! I forgot to say that the working name for this unit (since it spent so much time being experimented on) is " Pavlov's Dolby".
Thanks, Paul. Great idea. I'll be doing some dubbing with pancakes and this will minimize the risk of a spill. Not sure whether storing them that way is worth the risk. LarryOn my ATR; I occasionally play pancakes on a 14” flange. This is great for having one complete album on one reel. Using a second flange is a great tip Paul and gives me a little more piece of mind.
Hello everybody,
I'm a new member and I want to ask if somebody saved the pictures of erasehead's topic?
Thank you.
willi