Was Beta as good as or better than reel to reel?

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I had a vhs hifi machine back in the mid-80's. I used it to make audio recordings. It did an excellent job, but it sounded nowhere near as good as my Dokorder reel-to-reel machine. I'd heard so much about how good beta was supposed to be for audio back then. Admittedly, most of what I read was what was in the Sony advertisements.
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As Al's research references the carrier buzz was a problem. I recorded many a Beta HiFi tape at the fastest speed and all suffered from this buzz.

I'd have to say when it worked it worked well, but not as good as reel-to-reel or any high end cassette deck for that matter.

Now DAT is something else.

Absolutely not! But 8-track and Elcasette were much better.

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Elcassette! How old are you anyway???
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53 last month. I didn't say that a wire recorder was better. And if you don't know what that is Goggle it!