tim (05/13/83)
A listenable dynamic range in the car is not the only point here. There is a considerable cost and amount of time involved in taking your music with you in the car. Decent cassettes cost >= $4 each and then you must take the time to record your album (or soon your CD). You generally don't have copies of your entire album collection and must settle for what you currently have recorded. Cassettes bring you back to sequential searching and hissing can't be avoided. You can't buy any worthwhile pre-recorded cassettes and records have had the problem of destructive read and intensive care needs. CDs in the home and car are the answer! No duplication of music, random access, no hiss, and a non-destructive read. Granted, the dynamic range of the CD is waisted, but tell me what you would rather have in the car? A CD question: Is any information kept on the disk in addition to the music? I could see great potential here for computer access to title/ composer/duration/artists/lyrics information associated with each cut (I'm an avid album cover reader). Think of an automated system in which you could program hours of music so you don't have to get up and change it every 20 minutes or so. Which brings me to another question: Do you have to turn the CD over for the second side of play or is the hardware able to read both sides with the disk mounted? And finally, what is the cost per CD now? Tim Curry USENET: ucf-cs!tim ARPANET: tim.ucf-cs@rand-relay