The fact this was achieved in the early 90's is mind blowing. The technology in these heads was in my opinion the greatest heads ever built when it came to tape media. Just stop for a second and try to imagine if these heads where used just for analog alone just standard cassette would not have fallen out of favor in the mid 2000's better yet try to imagine what 8-tracks would have sounded like with these heads. DCC was an amazing technology not only for its digital ability but what it did for analog.
@@krzysztofsytar6219 true but not in the mass. It is funny when someone brings me a deck to fix with these heads and the head is dead and I asked what they did to it and 98% of the time I get "well I demagnetized the head after I cleaned it" oops can't do that
Truth be told that dcc was invented by Philips to replace the analog compact cassette in mind, but it back fired and dcc wasn't able to face out acc since consumers still held on to their history. Dcc is best used in digital format to reap all the benifits it was designed for and being backward compatible with acc was a means enter homes of existing compact casstte consumers.
It was an amazing achievement!! Highly underrated in my opinion . Would be interesting to hear about the development of the component models Thinking a lot of development from Marantz or at least I remember the 900 was manufactured by Marantz.Could be completely wrong though.
Marantz delivered the mechanism and designed the first gen. Players. Most electronics and the head by Philips. Marantz designed the portable DCC134, DCC170 and 175 as well.
A guy I know worked at the factory at Beemdstraat in Eindhoven where they produced the thin film heads. I remember stories of great difficulties to achieve continues quality, the heads where extremely difficult to produce. Later when Philips stopped with DCC, they started to produce heads for tapestreamers and where sold off to this external company (I can't remember the name) Just remembered the name, it was OnStream being a private company after the split off from Philips. More info on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnStream
Just found this, very cool to "see" you again my friend Tieme, it was such a treat to work with you on turning DCC into ADR!
The fact this was achieved in the early 90's is mind blowing. The technology in these heads was in my opinion the greatest heads ever built when it came to tape media. Just stop for a second and try to imagine if these heads where used just for analog alone just standard cassette would not have fallen out of favor in the mid 2000's better yet try to imagine what 8-tracks would have sounded like with these heads. DCC was an amazing technology not only for its digital ability but what it did for analog.
MR heads were used in analog tape decks, Technics RS-AZ6 and RS-AZ7.
@@krzysztofsytar6219 true but not in the mass. It is funny when someone brings me a deck to fix with these heads and the head is dead and I asked what they did to it and 98% of the time I get "well I demagnetized the head after I cleaned it" oops can't do that
@@jeeptrail08 sure, they do that, even if there is such a big info "DO NOT USE DEMAGNETIZE CASSETTE" on cassette door. :)
Truth be told that dcc was invented by Philips to replace the analog compact cassette in mind, but it back fired and dcc wasn't able to face out acc since consumers still held on to their history. Dcc is best used in digital format to reap all the benifits it was designed for and being backward compatible with acc was a means enter homes of existing compact casstte consumers.
It was an amazing achievement!! Highly underrated in my opinion .
Would be interesting to hear about the development of the component models
Thinking a lot of development from Marantz or at least I remember the 900 was manufactured by Marantz.Could be completely wrong though.
Marantz delivered the mechanism and designed the first gen. Players. Most electronics and the head by Philips. Marantz designed the portable DCC134, DCC170 and 175 as well.
Nice interview, only 1200 cables for DCC 175. Glad I have one. Unfortunately it does not work on a the parralel port of anything beyond W95
A guy I know worked at the factory at Beemdstraat in Eindhoven where they produced the thin film heads. I remember stories of great difficulties to achieve continues quality, the heads where extremely difficult to produce. Later when Philips stopped with DCC, they started to produce heads for tapestreamers and where sold off to this external company (I can't remember the name)
Just remembered the name, it was OnStream being a private company after the split off from Philips. More info on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnStream
Thanks for this!!!
Where canI buy a portable DCC recorder?
ebay
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