> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:50:38 +0000
> From: fons@linuxaudio.org
> To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
> Subject: Re: [LAU] New music, made with Ardour 3
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 08:47:38AM -0400, Al Thompson wrote:
>
> > I had actually been talking about normal audio tape (1/4" half-track).
> > Hi-fi VHS is built a little differently, and I'm not sure it responds
> > the same, or how the media itself compares to audio tape (Ampex 456, for
> > example).
>
> Hifi-VHS records the audio on FM subcarriers, the actual tape
> magnetisation curve has no impact on it at all. And indeed video
> tape is very different from audio tape, one of the reasons why
> standard linear audio recording on it doesn't provide high
> quality.
>
> Ciao,
>
> --
> FA
>


Also NICAM isn't it? Which is 14bit adaptive digital audio.