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Stereo VHS as high quality sound source?
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<blockquote data-quote="Steerpike" data-source="post: 68104" data-attributes="member: 807"><p>Tape streches? Hmm, you must be abusing it badly.</p><p>I have many VHS HiFi tapes dating back to the mid 80s, and 5 stereo VCRs</p><p>The biggest problem is you need good cassettes - ordinary cheap tape shows dropouts. TDK-EHG is good. And half-speed LP mode doesn't give good results generally.</p><p>There is slight 'incompatibility' between different machines. In all cases, the recording is best on the machine that recorded it - otherwise the tracking control is very sensitive, & you get head switching noise.</p><p></p><p>Don't trust any Hi-Fi machine that's been serviced to work well. Panasonic themselves admitted to me that they couldn't re-align a hi-fi machine to original factory specs. If the heads have been replaced (in SA at least), it will never give perfect results again. In Japan they had special vibration-isolated rooms in which to align these transports.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steerpike, post: 68104, member: 807"] Tape streches? Hmm, you must be abusing it badly. I have many VHS HiFi tapes dating back to the mid 80s, and 5 stereo VCRs The biggest problem is you need good cassettes - ordinary cheap tape shows dropouts. TDK-EHG is good. And half-speed LP mode doesn't give good results generally. There is slight 'incompatibility' between different machines. In all cases, the recording is best on the machine that recorded it - otherwise the tracking control is very sensitive, & you get head switching noise. Don't trust any Hi-Fi machine that's been serviced to work well. Panasonic themselves admitted to me that they couldn't re-align a hi-fi machine to original factory specs. If the heads have been replaced (in SA at least), it will never give perfect results again. In Japan they had special vibration-isolated rooms in which to align these transports. [/QUOTE]
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