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And I have been told by a local tech who knows first hand, you can't
string Dolby-A encoded audio over to CD then decode it; it just doesn't
work right. Apparently you -have- to decode it first.

That's not true, but you must set the level going into the decoder
properly. Dolby units are designed to be matched to tape decks, so the
level setting is usually within tweaking range. If you record a CD
with peaks hitting full scale and play it back through either a
computer sound card calibrated to something like +24 dBu = 0 dBFS
you'll have far too much level going into the Dolby unit. And if you
play it back on a typical crappy CD player, you'll be even worse off
due to distortion.

If you record the CD at a conservative level and adjust the playback
level so the Dolby tone puts the meters on the Dolby unit on the
calibration line, there's no reason why it wouldn't work just fine.

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