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- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
- Subject: Re: Two great mysteries of audio
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:30:13 GMT
- Organization: Columbia University
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- Approved: tjk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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- In article <1jov32INN53@uwm.edu> ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman) writes:
- >
- >1) Why are there no pre-recorded metal cassettes, or no pre-recorded
- > Dolby C cassettes? Every decent cassette deck for many years
- > (even car decks, for crying out loud) has had metal and Dolby C
- > capability. There must be some demand? Sure metal tape is expensive
- > but so are CD's.
-
- Probably because:
-
- a) Most people buying cassettes don't care about audio quality.
- b) Metal tapes probably peak out the cost/quality factors
- c) More players have Dolby B than Dolby C
- d) There's less alignment tolerance in Dolby C than there is
- in B.
-
- >2) Why do they not "record" or "press" or "download" :) or whatever
- > the appropriate term is, on both sides of a CD? Again, this would
- > be more expensive, sure, but probably much less than two CD's?
- > I certainly wouldn't mind flipping a CD over if I could save
- > several bucks and obtain the several other obvious advantages
- > of this.
-
- a) It would essentially be made the way a laser disc is made,
- that is, two CD's glued together.
- b) It would be too thick for most players, especially high-end
- players with special transport designs.
- c) The quality control problems would make it more expensive than
- two CD's.
- d) Where would you put the "label" ??
-
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