[net.audio] various comments from a new contributor

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.