At 04:30 PM 4/18/2003 -0500, Parker Dinkins wrote:

>Dolby B was designed for use with audiocassettes. Dolby A was designed for
>open reel tapes, and the hardware is available in the market. If you have
>Dolby B open reel tapes they were probably created to dub cassettes.

Dolby B was also used on Tandberg X-series open-reel recorders. It was
useful particularly for Dolby-B encoded FM broadcast with an external
equalizer; Radio Shack sold those R-C boxes for a few dollars and I have
one or two stashed away with my 4-track cartridge player and other obsolete
hardware.


Mike
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