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- From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
- Subject: Re: Hi Fi VCR for taping audio FM? (Re: A Timer/Recorder for AM/FM Radio?)
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:09:11 GMT
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- In <By6E5C.9J4@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
-
- >Some questions for you Hi Fi VCR users out there:
-
- >1) Is recording in SLP (or whatever its called - 6 hours on a "120"
- > tape) OK for good audio? I'm not out for CD quality here.. just
- > 120 minute cassette off-the-air FM quality.
-
- I have only ever had a few glitches in taping things with hi-fi, and
- only one was during a music concert. It behaves like FM radio (like
- you might expect, given how it's in there) - it's either very good or
- breaks up quite quickly, whatever the tape speed. If it's something
- you're time-shifting, use the slowest speed. If you want to keep it,
- you might want to use the fastest.
-
- >2) How important is auto-tracking? The Samsung doesn't have it; a
- > Sony that cost perhaps another $13 had it, but the Samsung had
- > an "index search" feature so I bought it. I fiddled with the
- > tracking but couldn't discern a difference.
-
- I don't really know if auto-tracking makes a difference, but I use
- index searching almost every day. I'd have made your choice.
-
- You'll have to give us a followup on the Samsung. Is that the one
- that can be had for somewhere around $300?
-
- Rob T
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- Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com
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