9212tjl (04/28/83)
I have to agree that attempting to stuff the dynamic range, etc., of a CD recording onto a standard audio cassette is "horrible to contemplate", but the severe lack of automotive CD players, portable personal CD players and *inexpensive* CD players (i.e. for office use...) leaves little choice for the person with these uses in mind. Rather than saying "buy a CD player" (the person must have some way of playing the CD in order to record it...) let's discuss the *practical* ways of recording as much of the information on the CD as possible on this other format. My first thought was to DBX encode the cassette, bu this gets into problems with playback for the automotive and personal portable use. Does anyone have any suggestions for keeping the low level signals above the noise floor while not clipping and otherwise distorting the high level signals without gain riding? Any ideas? I don't believe the "new contributor" will be the only one faced with this difficulty...others of us will also (me, for example). Tom Losh houxm!houxa!9212tjl Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
joe (04/29/83)
I don't know about personal portables, but there is an automotive dbx decoder available, according to an ad I saw a couple of weeks ago. {seismo,mcnc,we13}!rlgvax!cvl!joe
jeff (04/29/83)
No, the reason they are 4.42" in diameter is because that is 12cm, a metricization of the 12" diameter of analogue discs. J.F.