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Philips DCC and the DAT, the future that never was

Discussion in 'Other formats: DCC, MD, Reel 2 reel, CD...' started by Mister X, Sep 10, 2020.

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  1. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

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    Maplin Magazine 1993


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    1990 Radio Amateur Magazine


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    1990 Radio Amateur Magazine, I'm loving the car DAT deck, I bet those are rare.


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    RAM 1990


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    An interesting relic from the DAT Days, SBM = Super Bit Mapping, used to make 16-bit recordings sound like 20-bit.


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    I'm not sure if the Panasonic RX-DD1 has been posted, but it looks like one if not the only DCC boombox.
     
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    Now that is cool! The bottom panel folds down and has a bunch of buttons. One sold a few years ago on yahoo.jp for around $400 USD.
     
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    Back in the 90's I was drooling over the Philips DCC format, particularly the 900 series, I use to read about it in Science & Vie the French magazine, 3 decades later I own the DCC 730 for just nostalgia purposes, I only tried it a couple of times in the last 7 years, I'm pretty sure those SMD caps for the preamp are bad by now.
     
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