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K1000 was a nice deck by all acounts

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In Reply to: RE: Yamaha K1000 posted by 3db on April 18, 2017 at 03:18:04

Black one or silver? The latter did, apparently, exist!
Nice that you found one in working order.
FWIW, I've never had the guts to try dBx on a cassette; though.
dBx has (had) a pretty bad reputation for "pumping" (or "breathing"), relative to Dolby.
FWIW^2, I never cared for the sound of Dolby C cassette tapes, and I'd pretty much lost interest in cassette by the time HX-Pro came along (i.e., I really don't have much of an opinion one way or the other).
HX Pro certainly should help with HF extension at higher signal levels... which is the big bugbear when it comes to cassette tape in general and in any compander NR scheme (Dolby, dBx, what have you) in particular.

all the best,
mrh

Edits: 04/18/17

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RE: K1000 was a nice deck by all acounts - Inmate51 10:05:40 04/20/17 (0)
Don't feel bad about not doing the DBX thingy. Way back, I had a DBX 155 which I occasionally used with my Revox A77. Absolutely dead quiet audio. But, as, you said, it didn't respond well to certain kinds of sounds, and then would "pump". Had to get rid of it.

Also, Dolby C changed the tonal character of sounds too much, so even though my H-K cassette deck has it, I don't use it.

I don't currently know anything about HX Pro. Doesn't matter - cassette is, well, cassette: four tiny tracks on tape going at 1-7/8 ips. Cassette, to me at least, is totally a convenience format, not a hifi format.

:)
RE: K1000 was a nice deck by all acounts - 3db 18:15:57 04/18/17 (3)
I recorded some Delta Blues from an album that was noisy and I never experienced any of the pumping like you described.
- good to hear that! (nt) - mhardy6647 14:46:12 04/19/17 (0)
  all the best,
  mrh
- I wish someone had told me NOT to use dbx ... - Dave Pogue 04:59:41 04/19/17 (1)
  ... back when I had a Teac X1000R open reel deck. Now the Teac is long gone and its dbx-encoded tapes are essentially unlistenable. Yeah, I could get an outboard dbx unit (if I could find one that worked) and switch it in and out of the system, but the far better course of action would have been never to use dbx in the first place. Just my opinion.
  
  Same with Dolby C, by the way.
  - RE: I wish someone had told me NOT to use dbx ... - 3db 10:48:55 04/19/17 (0)
    Have you looked at EBay for dbx equipped R2R? Are they more scarce then cassette decks with R2R. Sorry about your loss on the Teac btw.
    
    Edits: 04/19/17

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