lutton@inmet.UUCP (10/07/84)
#N:inmet:2600108:000:565 inmet!lutton Oct 6 00:00:00 1984 <> Edison cylinders rotated at about 185 r.p.m. Originally they played for only 2 minutes. Later Edison introduced his "Blue Amberol" records that played for 4 minutes. (I think the grooves were closer together.) Not to change the subject (he said, changing the subject), why are the golden ears not telling us how terrible `electrical recording' (using microphones) is, and how the only way to get an undistorted sound is to use a diaphragm directly connected to the cutting stylus, as was done throughout the first fifty years of the recording industry? B-)