The DBX encoding scheme for LPs provided superb performance and comparable in every way to CDs. DBX, unlike Dolby, refused to license hardware manufacturers to use its patents. Dolby (in the cassette tape field) encouraged hardware manufacturers with a low fee, and even funded development of chips to make it easy. As a result Dolby got rich on software, and DBX encoding for LPs failed.
While noise reduction is the most obvious benefit of DBX encoding, it also means that the phono cartridge is always operating near its optimum signal level, and this greatly reduces distortion, and completely avoids any mistracking on transients. It also increased playing time/side.
You can play the LPs, but you wouldn't want to listen to them.
While noise reduction is the most obvious benefit of DBX encoding, it also means that the phono cartridge is always operating near its optimum signal level, and this greatly reduces distortion, and completely avoids any mistracking on transients. It also increased playing time/side.
You can play the LPs, but you wouldn't want to listen to them.