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Going back to analog days, it's amazing how much tape hiss and grunge we'd put up with.
Because the cure was often worse than the disease. Case in point - Dolby NR. Though Dolby S did a pretty good job... if I remember correctly, Dolby A was the one that sounded like a low pass filter and Dolby B was a high-freq compressor.
I remember feeling like a tool because I was looking for a dual deck with Dolby S and auto-reverse, which apparently was against the Dolby S spec, being that the head running backwards degraded the sound quality and could never be as precisely calibrated as an immovable head.
Bren R.
