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- From: mcvey@mprgate.mpr.ca (Iain McVey)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
- Subject: Re: Two great mysteries of audio
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 22:16:56 GMT
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- In article <1jusfpINNl6p@uwm.edu> caudle@owlnet.rice.edu (Chris Aaron Caudle) writes:
- >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?
-
- I would assume it is:
- 1) Standard money-grubbing; no one has asked for it.
- 2) We are talking high speed dubbing and mass production. Is metal
- going to make a difference?
-
- I don't buy prerecorded tapes if I can help it, but do receive them as
- gifts every so often. I usually listen to them in the car until they
- get intollerable (sometimes this does not take much) then borrow, rent,
- purchase the CD and tape over the original tape. It sounds much better.
-
- Therefore I would assume that the problem is with the process not the
- materials...
-
- >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.
-
- I would agree here.
-
- >|> 2) Why do they not "record" or "press" or "download" :) or whatever
- >|> the appropriate term is, on both sides of a CD?
-
- >Because there would be no place for a label.
-
- Do we need labels? I for one _love_ to pay an extra $.25 or whatever
- for the silk screening. Put the extra art / info into liner notes, I
- say.
-
- - Iain -
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