How or where can you connect to the cp 45 to get a raw preamp signal out put? This is the problem. I have a Perspecta Sound Integrator that needs the single coming from the solar cell to go into the input of the Perspecta. Then from the Perspecta the output will go into the Aux/Non Sync 2 Left Right Center input on the CP 45. My problem is, is getting an out put from the preamp before the switching of the format, so it's right from the cell and after the Proj Changeover. Do you get what I'm saying? Can I pick it up from the test points? Unlike the CP 55, there is no preamp out on the back panel.

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I almost got to see that FORBIDDEN PLANET presentation. I also ran it but when I did, I didn't have enough time to go hunting for a PS integrator. I think Dolby actually made one at one time that was a simple CAT card plug-in card....or so I was told. I also ran NORTH BY NORTHWEST that was supposed to have Perspecta with no chance to try to get it to work.

So what you are saying is that that PS integrator needs a solar cell level signal IN, but you need it AFTER change-over, right? How bout if you can grab a signal out of the CP45 anyplace after the change-over, even if it is already preamped to line level, no reason why you can't just put a 20db attenuation pad on it and drop it down to solar cell level or whatever the integrator likes to see at its input. Test points should be fine, especially if you are throwing a 33k resistor between it and the PS integrator input -- the CP45 won't even know the load is there.

I sure want to catch a show at the Jersey one of these days.

For anyone who is within walking, riding, swimming or flying distance of this theatre and the restoration project that these guys have been working on for years, this is a MUST see. The theatre is a beauty to behold in and of itself, but more importantly, Bernie and Bob Furmanek and the rest of the crew are our kind of people.

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I can't help you with the CP-45, I've never even seen one of them yet. Are you aiming to acquire the worlds entire remaining stock of integrators, and put them back into use!

I hope all goes well with the show at the Loew's this weekend, North by Northwest should look good on that screen, sorry I can't be there to see it.

When I was at the theatre in April, you had a switch, not in use, but in one of the rooms off the projection box, labeled something like 'mono', 'magnetic' and 'Perspecta'. Have you kept it? I rather hope that at least one of them will be preserved, even if not in use, as it is described in the original Perspecta documents in the Widescreen Museum, and is thus of historical interest, as part of the original installation.

I still have some booklets and other things, I will have to get them over to you sometime. I would like to come to another show at the Loew's, but getting time off work, booking flights, hotel etc. takes time, so I was not able to do it for this weekend. The Sci. Fi. weekend was advertised several months in advance, so I was able to arrange everything, including getting a Passport, but this weekends show was only anounced a week or two ago, at least as far as the e-mail list and web site are concerned. Would it be possible for future events to be anounced further ahead?

Are the Brenographs still in the condition they were when I saw them? If so, could I have a go at giving one of them a clean-up etc., next time I am there?

I hope you are still using carbons, knowing how much the things cost now, and hearing about the reported difficulty in obtaining good ones, the future doesn't look bright. (Pardon the pun.)

The four track mag penthouse I acquired over there, along with another, similar one, and a Dolby MPU-1 is now installed in the private cinema of someone living in the English Lake District. I had difficulty finfing a Cat.93 12kHz. switch card, but managed to get one from Boston Light & Sound. Projectors also converted back to carbon. Picture and sound both very good.

Hope to see you again soon.

Hmm...on second thought I'd like to see the front and the back of this thing.

It's a long defunct process but some folks have created decoder cards for both Dolby and Ultra Stereo processors; on the former, it would temporarily take the place of the Cat.150 2:4 decoder card. On a digital processor it could be done in software if someone were to take the time to write the code.

A note of the Dolby card for Perspecta. They never really got it right. Not only does the Perspecta pan the sound to LCR but it also controls the gain and also filters out the cue tones that you might hear on a normal play back . It's like a little rumble in the bass. TheDolby card never allowed for the gain and never filtered out the cue noise, although it did pan properly. But if you come across one for a dolby unit, I would pick one up for the hell of it. Remember also, that MGM cartoons from the era are Perspecta too. So I bet some of your Tom and Jerrys are Pespecta encoded. It will say it on the leader in the track if it is.

Hi Stephen,
The Loew's looks exactly the way it did when you left in April. We had a little fight between the "volunteers" running the place and the film people. So I haven't been back there in months. I'm on to bigger better things at the Rahway, so I hope. Just took over the curator position for the Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ there. Now, this is a place, the next time your here, you must see. Glad to see you got all that stuff back with out a problem.

Thanks again guys.

I have played with the Cineman "PerSpecTa Card" (a Dolby Cat. 150 sub). I'd recommend it to anyone wanting to play back a perspecta film, including Tom and Jerry shorts.

Steve