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600 Club - QQ All-Star
Well, I have a couple of QS DBX LPs and non-DBX copies of the same titles, so I will just have to try it and see. It is certainly less connection hassle to do the DBX decoding first, but my other concern (besides phase shifts) is that a QS decoder might not react well to such a huge dynamic range ... some extremely quiet bits, then some extremely loud ones. I know that a Tate would overload, that is why there is an input level control. My QSD-2 doesn't have one though. Mike.
Mike:
In the late 70's when I was messing around with dbx I encoded a lot of music to r2r tape. I would play it back and decode the signal, then run it through my 3BX dynamic range expander, then send it through the vario-matrix of my -9001. This did not seem to cause any problems for the vario-matrix. Again, I don't know if this was the correct sequence but the results sounded great! It impressed the heck out of my non-quad friends.
Justin