Steve_Graham@ub.cc.umich.edu (01/16/91)
The new Phillips digital cassette is supposed to be the same size and shape as standard compact cassettes, and uses the same basic transport, heads excepted. ---------- The only laser player of analog records I've heard of is the Finial device. I have not seen one, though I'm very curious about it. I would think that for playing worn disks you'd have a better chance of scanning an area deep within the groove, lower than a stylus has gone, rather than the top of the groove, where you would certainly find a lot more surface noise. Apparently one problem with this device is that records have to be scrupulously clean because the "stylus", a laser beam, doesn't push dirt out of the way at all. --------- In the previous issue of this digest someone said that most equalizers were of too low Q to correct the response errors that occur with amps playing into speakers which Carver claims causes audible differences between amps. There are, however, a number of parametric equalizers which allow control over these parameters. What sort of bandwidth are we talking about? It was also said that the equalizer would introduce phase shifts. The implication seems to be that the response errors generated by the amp/spkr combinations would be free of phase shift. How so? ---------- For the person who wanted to know which of us worked "in audio", I work at a large public radio station as "media engineer" (whatever that may mean), fixing/aligning things and recording concerts. I do freelance recordings now and then too. I'd move to New York and try to get a recording job, but I'm too low key for that....