Retro HiFi: DBX Disc - The best thing you probably haven't heard

In this video I demonstrate DBX Discs, and am blown away to find that that this forgotten 40-odd year old technology sounds as good (or better) than anything that I've ever heard.
You can still find old DBX Disc decoders on ebay where you can also find some DBX encoded records. The Discogs marketplace is also a good place to source DBX discs.
If you want to read the vinyl inlay card info about DBX disc - it can be downloaded from here:
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One more thing - I didn't try this before because to me it seemed a patently ludicrous idea....however seeing as so many asked for this, today I tried playing a non-dbx vinyl record through the decoder to see what happened. It should come as no surprise to anyone that when you use a decoder to decode something that hasn't been encoded....it doesn't work..
The results sounded terrible. Like putting a pillow over a speaker. Or putting your fingers in your ears. Unlistenable. Rubbish. Awful.. Poor. Bad.
As The Jam once said "The public gets what the public wants"....so in a (soon to be proved misguided) attempt to placate the angry crowds brandishing pitchforks and flaming torches - HERE IS A DIGITAL RECORDING of the first two minutes of Pramlatta's Hips.
Wow whatever happened to humour....so many people pointing out “that’s not a lady” on the DBX information card. I mean come on, there is a humourous air to the video overall, it’s got flipping puppets in it so you know straight off it’s not going be the News At Ten, then on top of that it actually says “*j/k” overlaid on the screen during the joke itself. I don’t know how it would be possible to to signpost a joke any more that that other than saying...”the following words are a joke” but that would surely become tiresome. Try to lighten up a bit...have some fun, you’re only here once.
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