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3 unusual facts about High Com


High Com

Besides Telefunken's own CN 750 High Com compander box and Nakamichi's High-Com II unit, other companies also offered external High Com compander boxes such as the Aiwa HR-7 and HR-50 or the Rotel RN-500 and RN-1000.

Nakamichi, one of the more than 20 licensees of the High Com system, insisted on using a sliding-band compander, so High Com was further developed into the two-band High Com II and three-band High Com III sliding-band 2:1:2 systems by Werner Scholz and Ernst F.

A low-cost implementation of the Telefunken High Com system as external compander box became available as HobbyCom, promoted for do-it-yourself assembly in the popular WDR TV series Hobbythek format by Jean Pütz in 1980.


Dolby noise-reduction system

A similar system named High Com FM was tested in Germany between July 1979 and December 1981 by IRT.


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