Here is an Onkyo deck. Its been a while, and I forget which ones were the best of. Onkyo was up there.
Was Lucasfilm THX really just for Star Wars? Still around?
Was Lucasfilm THX really just for Star Wars? Still around?
Old cassettes sound great
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Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
This one had B, C, and dbx, in addition to HX Pro. It still sits in my parents' house. Has a matching amp, cd player, and am/fm tuner.
My parents had the exact same unit! LOL!!
This one had B, C, and dbx, in addition to HX Pro. It still sits in my parents' house. Has a matching amp, cd player, and am/fm tuner.
My parents had the exact same unit! LOL!!
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Originally Posted By: OilyWaterMIXER
Was Lucasfilm THX really just for Star Wars? Still around?
Google is your friend:
http://www.thx.com/consumer/home-entertainment/
Wikipedia page on THX
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THX Ltd. is an American audio company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1983 by George Lucas. It develops"THX" high-fidelity audio/visual repion standard for movie theaters, screening rooms, home theaters, computer speakers, gaming consoles, and car audio systems, and video games as well.
The current THX was created in 2002 when it spun off from Lucasfilm Ltd.[1] THX was developed by Tomlinson Holman at George Lucas' company, Lucasfilm, in 1983 to ensure that the soundtrack for the third Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi, would be accurately reproduced in the best venues. THX was named after Holman, with the "X" standing for "crossover"[2] as well as in homage to Lucas's first film, THX 1138. The distinctive glissando up from a rumbling low pitch used in the THX trailers, created by Holman's coworker James A. Moorer, is known as the "Deep Note".
The THX system is not a recording technology, and it does not specify a sound recording format: all sound formats, whether digital (Dolby Digital,DTS, SDDS) or analog (Dolby Stereo, Ultra Stereo), can be "shown in THX". THX is mainly a quality assurance system. THX-certified theaters provide a high-quality, predictable playback environment to ensure that any film soundtrack mixed in THX will sound as near as possible to the intentions of the mixing engineer. THX also provides certified theaters with a special crossover circuit whose use is part of the standard. Certification of an auditorium entails specific acoustic and other technical requirements; architectural requirements include a floating floor, baffled and acoustically treated walls, non-parallel walls (to reduce standing waves), a perforated screen (to allow center channel continuity), and NC30 rating for background noise ("ensures noise from air conditioning units and projection equipment does not mask the subtle effects in a movie's soundtrack.")[3]
THX is owned by sound card manufacturer Creative Technology Limited, which holds a 60% share of the company.[4] The company has had a long history with Creative, which was responsible for the creation of the first THX-certified audio card for computers, the Sound Blaster Audigy 2.
Was Lucasfilm THX really just for Star Wars? Still around?
Google is your friend:
http://www.thx.com/consumer/home-entertainment/
Wikipedia page on THX
Originally Posted By: Wikipedia
THX Ltd. is an American audio company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1983 by George Lucas. It develops"THX" high-fidelity audio/visual repion standard for movie theaters, screening rooms, home theaters, computer speakers, gaming consoles, and car audio systems, and video games as well.
The current THX was created in 2002 when it spun off from Lucasfilm Ltd.[1] THX was developed by Tomlinson Holman at George Lucas' company, Lucasfilm, in 1983 to ensure that the soundtrack for the third Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi, would be accurately reproduced in the best venues. THX was named after Holman, with the "X" standing for "crossover"[2] as well as in homage to Lucas's first film, THX 1138. The distinctive glissando up from a rumbling low pitch used in the THX trailers, created by Holman's coworker James A. Moorer, is known as the "Deep Note".
The THX system is not a recording technology, and it does not specify a sound recording format: all sound formats, whether digital (Dolby Digital,DTS, SDDS) or analog (Dolby Stereo, Ultra Stereo), can be "shown in THX". THX is mainly a quality assurance system. THX-certified theaters provide a high-quality, predictable playback environment to ensure that any film soundtrack mixed in THX will sound as near as possible to the intentions of the mixing engineer. THX also provides certified theaters with a special crossover circuit whose use is part of the standard. Certification of an auditorium entails specific acoustic and other technical requirements; architectural requirements include a floating floor, baffled and acoustically treated walls, non-parallel walls (to reduce standing waves), a perforated screen (to allow center channel continuity), and NC30 rating for background noise ("ensures noise from air conditioning units and projection equipment does not mask the subtle effects in a movie's soundtrack.")[3]
THX is owned by sound card manufacturer Creative Technology Limited, which holds a 60% share of the company.[4] The company has had a long history with Creative, which was responsible for the creation of the first THX-certified audio card for computers, the Sound Blaster Audigy 2.
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Originally Posted By: hatt
In the 90s I use to record music onto VCR tapes using a Panasonic HiFi VCR. Always thought it sounded a lot better than cassette tapes.
Friend of mine did that very same thing. I'm thinking his was a Panasonic as well.
In the 90s I use to record music onto VCR tapes using a Panasonic HiFi VCR. Always thought it sounded a lot better than cassette tapes.
Friend of mine did that very same thing. I'm thinking his was a Panasonic as well.
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Originally Posted By: OilyWaterMIXER
Here is an Onkyo deck. Its been a while, and I forget which ones were the best of. Onkyo was up there.
Was Lucasfilm THX really just for Star Wars? Still around?
The Nakamichi Dragon was probably the highest end cassette deck that I can remember.
Here is an Onkyo deck. Its been a while, and I forget which ones were the best of. Onkyo was up there.
Was Lucasfilm THX really just for Star Wars? Still around?
The Nakamichi Dragon was probably the highest end cassette deck that I can remember.
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Originally Posted By: OilyWaterMIXER
I also remember that Dolby and Dolby II noise reduction always used to make the music sound more muted.
That was my observation. Using the Dolby noise reduction was unnecessary to me when the source was a CD. With an LP it did help to cut down on the hissing, popping, etc. that seemed inherent in brand new vinyl LP's in the 80's. The pressings really were pretty low quality toward then end of that media's life.
That was one thing I never liked about tapes was the hissing, and they all had it...that's where CDs are better...
Originally Posted By: OilyWaterMIXER
I also remember that Dolby and Dolby II noise reduction always used to make the music sound more muted.
That was my observation. Using the Dolby noise reduction was unnecessary to me when the source was a CD. With an LP it did help to cut down on the hissing, popping, etc. that seemed inherent in brand new vinyl LP's in the 80's. The pressings really were pretty low quality toward then end of that media's life.
That was one thing I never liked about tapes was the hissing, and they all had it...that's where CDs are better...
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In the 90s I use to record music onto VCR tapes using a Panasonic HiFi VCR. Always thought it sounded a lot better than cassette tapes.
I remember hearing about that. I'd like to see the deck in a car that could handle VHS - LOL.
In the 90s I use to record music onto VCR tapes using a Panasonic HiFi VCR. Always thought it sounded a lot better than cassette tapes.
I remember hearing about that. I'd like to see the deck in a car that could handle VHS - LOL.
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That is one hardcore tape deck!
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I used to have this one. I still have the matching Dynamic Processor. I gave the tape deck to my brother:
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I have an old Toshiba, but I haven't used it in a dog's age.
I used to be one of the guys who ran the sound system at church. We had a recorder that produced audio CD's of the services as well as a quick CD duplicator. I took a few of my old cassette copies of albums that I no longer own (these were albums that were never released on CD) and used the sound system to record my cassettes onto CD's. The sound quality is decent; not bad, not great. I ripped the CD's at home on my computer to use with my MP3 player (now smartphone).
There are USB turntables and cassette decks out there that make it easy to go straight from the original analog media to sound files. While the sound quality may not be perfect it can breathe new life into a music collection or allow portability of some media that never made it into digital format.
There are USB turntables and cassette decks out there that make it easy to go straight from the original analog media to sound files. While the sound quality may not be perfect it can breathe new life into a music collection or allow portability of some media that never made it into digital format.
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Originally Posted By: OilyWaterMIXER
Here is an Onkyo deck. Its been a while, and I forget which ones were the best of. Onkyo was up there.
Was Lucasfilm THX really just for Star Wars? Still around?
The Nakamichi Dragon was probably the highest end cassette deck that I can remember.
Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
Behold!!
Amazing!
Other high-end names: Denon? Philips, pre-Sanyo? NAD?
And I remember hearing of Nakamichi, just didn't want to be hot-doggin' on you sneaky roaches
Hearing crickets, lol.
I can imagine these being in someone's empty room
in the proverbial Psych Ward. Pass this along.
Originally Posted By: OilyWaterMIXER
Here is an Onkyo deck. Its been a while, and I forget which ones were the best of. Onkyo was up there.
Was Lucasfilm THX really just for Star Wars? Still around?
The Nakamichi Dragon was probably the highest end cassette deck that I can remember.
Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
Behold!!
Amazing!
Other high-end names: Denon? Philips, pre-Sanyo? NAD?
And I remember hearing of Nakamichi, just didn't want to be hot-doggin' on you sneaky roaches
I can imagine these being in someone's empty room
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A couple of more extremely high end tape decks I remember are Tandberg and Revox.
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