<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The YouTube comparison was done before the 3M DOC was installed in the Ampex so you can see black line dropouts.<div><br></div><div>There is no visible aliasing in the Ampex/Merlin. It is also a 10 bit TBC.</div><div><br></div><div>The compression on YouTube makes it more difficult to see the slight picture differences. The Merlin has a slightly sharper picture while the Ampex is slightly softer. Lockup time is about the same, around two seconds.<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Dec 8, 2009, at 6:52 AM, <a href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><div>The playback in the side by side shows the quality of both. If this is the original, you can see the difference. The aliasing will tell you which is the Merlin machine. The lack of a good drop out compensator will tell you which is the Ampex original. The Ampex machine used the built in one that was included with the AFC modules.</div></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>