This memory came back to me about the early 90's - doing VHS HIFI with a Sony deck.
Details elude me as they fade since I only did it for a very short time. I put quite a few treasured LP's on it, until they started stacking up, interest waned and so forth.
I do remember though that my deck had an "audio only" mode, and even a crude single-knob level control with metering. I *think* that there were different heads being used in the helical scan for this, but not sure.
Not wanting to crinkle the tapes (and bought the best I could find, and run at the highest speed) I tended to limit my sessions to listening to an entire LP at a time, and not do a bunch of shuttling around.
It didn't last too long for me, but at the time, I thought it sounded pretty good. I think my heart was yearning for the reel-to-reel days, which from a consumer standpoint either being unobtainium at big-box stores, or just stratospherically expensive.
Cruising ASR made me think of this small blip in time for me - wonder if anyone else stacked up a collection of VHS HIFI tapes?
Details elude me as they fade since I only did it for a very short time. I put quite a few treasured LP's on it, until they started stacking up, interest waned and so forth.
I do remember though that my deck had an "audio only" mode, and even a crude single-knob level control with metering. I *think* that there were different heads being used in the helical scan for this, but not sure.
Not wanting to crinkle the tapes (and bought the best I could find, and run at the highest speed) I tended to limit my sessions to listening to an entire LP at a time, and not do a bunch of shuttling around.
It didn't last too long for me, but at the time, I thought it sounded pretty good. I think my heart was yearning for the reel-to-reel days, which from a consumer standpoint either being unobtainium at big-box stores, or just stratospherically expensive.
Cruising ASR made me think of this small blip in time for me - wonder if anyone else stacked up a collection of VHS HIFI tapes?