Back in the 80's, just as an experiment, I wired an extra Panasonic deck to dub compact discs, just for the hell of it, to hear how it would sound. At normal speed, a virgin tape dubbed just once with audio played back very well; what's more, I could dub video onto it, whether from broadcast or other sources like VHS or Beta tape. The sound, while not exactly equal to digital audio quality via CD, was darn close. But use the 'long play,' six-hour mode and you got what was essentially a 'scrunched' sound,' something not exactly bad (unlike the video image, which royally sucked) but not anywhere near a 'normal' audio sound.
Which probably indicates I had way too much time on my hands during that decade.....
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Which probably indicates I had way too much time on my hands during that decade.....
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