[net.audio] New newgroup suggestion--Re: question about whispering ghosts

jj@alice.UUCP (12/17/84)

Ok.  This article on "whispering ghosts" regarding disc pre-echo shows the
need for a new newsgroup in net.audio, namely  net.audio.query, for
questions about equipment, problems with equipment, questions regarding
obscure audio effects, etc.   I feel that the time has come, with the
23'rd rerunning of the groove echo question, and the beginning of
a spate of "authoritive answers".  

I feel that there is a need for a newsgroup which can be used by those
who wish to ask questions and give answers, ESPECIALLY recurrant
questions and answers.  Perhaps there is a need for a net.audio nettiquette
document that lists the 25 most common questions (or something like that)
that is always put at the beginning of the net.audio articles, and that doesn't
expire, thus providing a set of answers for the newcomer.  (Query to
nettrash hackers--It that possible?  I know that there are some
newuser announcements, but I don't know if we can put one in net.audio.)

I don't read net.news.group.  (Just for your own info.)

Mail (at alice!jj) with a one or two word message,
i.e. "yes", "no", "yes, but" etc, etc,  will be counted.  Flames,
insults, diatribes, and the like will be left unread past the first
line that makes the flame/etc obvious.

Oh yes, as regards the "whispering ghosts" or GROOVE ECHO.  It has been
shown, both in this newsgroup, and in real life (please note the two distinct
catagories) that the pre-echo you hear on a disc is ALMOST ALWAYS due to
PLASTIC DEFORMATION in the shellac master that is used to generate
discs.