<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Right company... wrong machine, though...</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Jun 4, 2011, at 11:05 AM, LARRY wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 255); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 24px; ">Anyone ever see this?</span></div><img height="483" width="728" src="cid:7C94516B-B869-41ED-AE88-1CF5655657C2"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 255); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; ">LE Odham</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; ">Engr-Tech</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; ">TAMIS Archive</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; ">Knoxville,Tenn.</div><span style="font-size: 11px; "><vr1000.jpg></span></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Not sure whether anyone saw my post regarding the use of Quad to record digital audio:</div><div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>And the answer is:</b></div><div>Denon, a subsidary of Nippon Columbia in Japan.</div><div><br></div><div>Details are found here:</div><div><a href="http://www.aes.org/aeshc/pdf/fine_dawn-of-digital.pdf">http://www.aes.org/aeshc/pdf/fine_dawn-of-digital.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">In 1969-1971, Denon leased an NHK stereo PCM recorder and conducted numerous</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">test recordings. Retired Denon engineer Dr. Takeaki Anazawa told the author: 'We got a</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">lot of ideas about improvement of (the) system from these experiences." Denon's tests</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">also resulted in two commercial albums, the first commercial use of PCM digital technology.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">Indeed, the first commercial digital recording was Nippon Columbia NCB-7003,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">"Something" by Steve Marcus, released January 1971. The only other commercial release</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">to come out of these early Denon/NHK recordings was Nippon Columbia NCC-8004,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">"The World of Sutomu Yamashita," according to Anazawa."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">Satisfied that PCM digital was an improvement over analog tape, Denon engineers</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">set out to develop their own VTR-based system. Their goals were improved audio quality</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">and multi-track recording capability, which then made the system viable in most commercial</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">recording settings of the 1970s. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">In 1972, Denon unveiled the DN-023R, an 8-channel system featuring 13-bit resolution and a sampling rate of 47.25kHz. The system used a Hitachi (then called Shiba Electronics) 4-head open-reel broadcast VTR as its</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">storage format. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><i>(TL asks: Would this have been a Shibaden SV-7000, seen here transformed into a Merlin ME-68 on LabGuy's website?</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.labguysworld.com/Merlin_ME68.htm">http://www.labguysworld.com/Merlin_ME68.htm</a></span>)</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><i><br></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><i>Here's a photo of the Denon machine from:</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><i><a href="http://www.sempre-audio.at/images/Report/100_Jahre_Denon/Denon_DN-023R_PCM-Recorder_670.jpg">http://www.sempre-audio.at/images/Report/100_Jahre_Denon/Denon_DN-023R_PCM-Recorder_670.jpg</a></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><i><br></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><i>Looks line an SV-7000 to me.)</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><i><br></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><i><img height="521" width="674" style="-webkit-user-select: none; " src="cid:5F3379C9-B7A0-4818-8C8B-1E59CCC0A2EA"></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><i><br></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i><br></i></span></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">Anazawa noted: "We used the low-band mode of the VTR, for black and white (video). The reasons were stronger (performance) than color mode for tape dropout and less cost." Anazawa said, with the DN-023R, "we could edit music recordings and cut (LP) discs using advanced (preview) head" to control lathe automation.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">Denon deployed the DN-023R system immediately and used it to make commercial release</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">recordings throughout the 1970s.</div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">There's a Billboard magazine article with pictures here:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 8px; "><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=fSQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT31&lpg=PT31&dq=Denon,+digital+audio,+2%2522+Quad&source=bl&ots=UNjJuD5cy8&sig=cZ4Cep2qnya9iyqz_KWY26Tdk2U&hl=en&ei=CRTpTZfwDJL0swOyg4T3DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v">http://books.google.com/books?id=fSQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT31&lpg=PT31&dq=Denon,+digital+audio,+2%22+Quad&source=bl&ots=UNjJuD5cy8&sig=cZ4Cep2qnya9iyqz_KWY26Tdk2U&hl=en&ei=CRTpTZfwDJL0swOyg4T3DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.5px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 15px; ">More can be found in the AES Journal, <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Volume 21 Number 7 pp. 535-541; September 1973.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div></div><div>Ded</div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>