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- From: caudle@owlnet.rice.edu (Chris Aaron Caudle)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
- Subject: Re: Two great mysteries of audio
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:54:58 GMT
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- In article <1jov32INN53@uwm.edu>, ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman) writes:
- |>
- |>
- |> Two things I've been wondering about or been annoyed by:
- |>
- |> 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.
- |
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- Mainly because not EVERYONE has a Dolby C deck, and commercially available
- material needs to be downwardly compatible. As for metal, I don't know.
- Most new cassettes are recorded on chrome; maybe the record distributors
- have decided that the quality of the media doesn't justify more expensive
- tape than that, or, more likely, that most people just don't care, so why
- bother? They are in this to make a profit, for the most part, and not
- because they are idealistic about preserving art for future generations.
-
- |> 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.
- |
- Because there would be no place for a label.
-
- Chris Caudle
- caudle@owlnet.rice.edu
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