On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Brian Willoughby wrote:
quoted 4 lines Now I'm learning about DSP so I can write a program to pitch CDs up or down> Now I'm learning about DSP so I can write a program to pitch CDs up or down
> with my NeXT computer to simulate the 33/45 or 45/33 shift. Does anyone know
> if the pitchable CD players (like the dual DENON) can handle playing as low as
> 73% of full speed, or an interval of a fourth in pitch down?
A friend of mine has a Denon that will go down an octave or up two
octaves (factory default is up one octave, but through a software bug you
can trick it into doing 2!). Yet another sign of digital superiority!
quoted 3 lines This whole idea has renewed my interest in vinyl - and reminded me of the> This whole idea has renewed my interest in vinyl - and reminded me of the
> days when I refused to even buy CDs or a CD player.
>
Let's see, I'm trying to remember why I would buy vinyl - muddy low end
combined with rumble, lousy high end filled with pops & surface noise,
lack of durability, even less durability if you play them more than once
every 24 hours, it's damn hard to throw a 1200 and a dozen 12s in my
backpack & carry them somewhere much less play them in my car, though I
would never be able to leave vinyl in my car here in the South in the
summer without serious warpage, lots of fun things to do to isolate my
turntable so the record doesn't skip, more room for cover art except these
white labels don't have any cover art, and a coupla bucks cheaper until I
factor in the cost of a cassette to tape it so it doesn't wear out.
Uh, sorry, can't think of a single reason to buy vinyl. Okay, I guess
scratchin' CD players like the Pioneer CDJ-500II are a bit more expensive
than 1200s, but if more people would buy them they'd be cheaper than a
good turntable.
Vinyl just plain sucks, unless you're one of those hopeless romantic types
that thinks anything from the past is so much better than the present that
you can ignore the facts and convince yourself otherwise.
Now, if they'd only release those Gescom EPs on CD I could sell my
turntable. ;-)
Che