[Mike Rivers]

Arny Krueger wrote:

185nW/m comes to mind. Yes, it is my recollection that there were cassettes
that were recorded with peaks above Dolby level. I'm not sure that this is
as Dolby intended, but it did happen.

Oh, for sure. The Dolby level is, like everything else with analog tape,
a nominal level. While an analog tape deck doesn't have as much headroom
as we usually allow with a digital recorder, peaks of at least 10 dB
above the nominal level are expected. 185 nW/m is 0.5 to 1 dB lower than
cassette decks were normally aligned, so Dolby level should probably
correspond to somewhere in the ballpark of -15 dBFS.


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