It's no wonder your records are flat. Before they're pressed, about half of the music's dynamic range has been squeezed out.
The vice is the recording process. Live music's dynamic rang' can be more than 100dB, but the studio recorders have only 58dB of useable dynamic range capacity. So the engineer has to compress the signal, making the loud sounds quieter and quiet ones louder. And that's where the live gets squeezed out of it. Your conventional discs offer less than 50dB of dynamic range.
You can undo much of the damage. Just add a dbx 3BX Dynamic Range Expander to your system, and you'll restore most of the missing dynamic range in your records, tapes and FM broadcasts. The 3BX unsqueezes all kinds of music, making everything sound richer, clearer and fuller than you've ever heard. And with dramatically less noise as well.
The 3BX works equally well with bud set -priced equipment and state-of-the-art systems. You won’t need an audio engineer's ears to hear the remarkable improvement in the quality of your recorded music.
But we suggest you hear it for yourself. Take your favorite record or tape to your dbx dealer and ask for a demonstration. Once you hear the 3BX in action, you'll wonder how you ever listened to music without it.
dbx, Incorporated
71 Chapel Street Newton, Massachusetts 02195
617/964-3210
3BX three band dynamic range expander
[adapted from AUDIO magazine/Oct. 1977]
Also see:
dbx 10/20 Computerized Equalizer/Analyzer (Jan. 1985)