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- From: cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott)
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- Subject: Re: Two great mysteries of audio
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:01:11 GMT
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- ken@isgtec.com (Ken Newman) writes:
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- >Two things I've been wondering about or been annoyed by:
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- >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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- A&M does (or used to, at least) pre-record on chrome cassettes.
- I know of no company that uses Dolby C.
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- One reason why companies are largely unconcerned with analog
- cassette quality is because the principal consumers of that format are
- largely unconcerned with quality. The companies will continue to sell
- them as long as it is profitable.
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- >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.
-
- I don't have a lot of ideas on this one. It may be due to
- quality control reasons. (At least, that could have been an issue in
- the early days of the medium that has been held over for historical
- reasons.) I doubt any pressing plants are set up to manufacture two-
- sided CD's, so why bother to develop the technology when there is no
- pressing (no pun intended) need for it?
-
- -Cal
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