[net.audio] Hooking TVs to stereos revisited

davy (04/02/83)

#N:pur-ee:12000014:000:470
pur-ee!davy    Apr  1 07:43:00 1983


	For those of you who were interested in hooking your TV's to
	your stereos, this information may be of interest.

	I got a catalog in the mail the other day from Fordham Radio in
	New York.  They sell a little box which plugs into your TV, and
	gives "simulated stereo" to your stereo.  It comes complete with
	isolation transformer and everything, and sells for $19.95.

	If there's enough interest, I'll post Fordham's address to the net.

--Dave Curry
pur-ee!davy

bill (04/04/83)

	I got a catalog in the mail the other day from Fordham Radio in
	New York.  They sell a little box which plugs into your TV, and
	gives "simulated stereo" to your stereo.  It comes complete with
	isolation transformer and everything, and sells for $19.95.
		pur-ee!davy

	I have an RCA 19" top-of-the-line TV that includes pseudo-stereo
as an additional misfeature in the [built-in] audio takeoff.  I wish
I could disconnect the lousy thing -- it adds delay, etc, and simply
summing the two outputs doesn't improve things.  For the [very] few
times I wanted a takeoff, I would have greatly preferred mono.
	Even if the Fordham box is any better, you will still be extremely
disappointed at the defects in TV sound -- they'll be much more noticable.
In the last week of [exclusively Public Television] viewing, I have
heard more wow, flutter, and noise than you could get in a month of listening
to an old, crummy Voice of Music portable phono (I had one when I was 8).
Has anyone else noticed these problems?
		bill cox
		bill@uwisc
		...seismo!uwvax!bill