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Not to set myself up as an @Oddball whisperer ;) but I think (i.e., suspect) that's what they were getting at! :)

go for it!

That is where (consumer, at least) digital recording started. The add-on PCM recorders (and, eventually, standalone decks) were not inexpensive. Again, the bandwidth of rotating-head recording enabled these decks -- but, other than the basic platform used, they're utterly unrelated to the FM...

OK. So, this is the aforementioned Zenith (JVC) VHS Hi-Fi Stere Audio-Video Recorder (so labeled!) that we bought. holidaydubbing121209 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr In the photo, the deck's being used to record (dub) an LP of "Christmas music" (see below for more gruesome details). The photo above...

We were fairly early adopters of VHS hi-fi, via a Zenith-branded (JVC) deck acquired ca. 1986 (memory is hazy!) at the big annual Stereo Discounters hifi show and sale at the Timonium Fairgrounds near Baltimore, MD. Stereo Discounters was a big deal in those days, and their big (truly huge) big...

Not a priori, no, they do not. They, too, need a display so to do. potentiometer shaft with a flat (e.g.), or an add-on such as... Note that this analog display (Yamaha R-1000, sorry it was kind of grubby when photographed) is even calibrated. :)

Alternatively, one might postulate that productive meeting(s) is an oxymoron -- perhaps by definition. ;)

If any of y'all've never seen The Big Bus -- I would say that you are immediately disqualified from discussion of the best motion pictures of all time. ahem. ;)

Merkwürdig. ;)

Yes, but... a big Subaru. Indeed. There is little which a Dremel cannot rectify. ... and, for those cases that elude a Dremel's wiles... well... that's what the Sawzall is for. :) Beyond that, we're in the range of plastic explosives.

FWIW, the aforementioned link is fine (in the US, at any rate) -- just not secure (http: protocol) und so weiter... ;)

If memory serves, at the slowest speed, "EP" (i.e., 6 hour for a T-120 VHS videocassette) the linear tape velocity is* 15/16 ips (umm... in the real world, that's something like 24 mm per second. OK, it is apparently even worse than that. :facepalm: Per a table at this page**, the length of...

@amirm tested a (very) good nakamichi deck. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/measurements-of-nakamichi-dragon-cassette-deck.5595/ I have... things... to say about VHS HiFi (and, by implication, at least, Beta HiFi, too) but, perhaps ironically, I don't have the...

Admittedly, not humor per se, but... well... I found these trompe-l'œil images amusing. YMMV. :rolleyes: ;) 26_0028321 Rohr Collection Image by SDASM Archives, on Flickr 26_0028320 Rohr Collection Image by SDASM Archives, on Flickr

speaking of entertaining movies... :cool: