From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Here's an interesting (actually VERY well done) video about what the
loudness war does to music.  This video is also hosted on Youtube, but in
their homogenized video/audio format.  Bob Katz has gotten a very high
quality version of this, and is hosting it on his web site.

http://www.digido.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=28



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Glenn M.
"mike"  wrote in message
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> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:06:09 -0600, "Glenn Meadows"

> wrote:
>
>>Yup, par for the course.
>>
>>I recall in one of the early Sony literature pieces, and a meeting with
>>"techs" from Sony, they stated DAT is NOT a professional
format, and at
>>that
>>time, they only guaranteed 100 plays on a tape.
>
> In a previous life I worked for a major record company in the 8-track
> days (in the Quality Engineering department - geesh, what a misnomer...
> but I digress...).   I was told that the 8-track cartridges were
> designed intentionally to not work after about 100 plays.
>
> This was told to me by the same person who also told me that it was OK
> for cassette tapes to have multiple 1 second dropouts (i.e., absence of
> the iron oxide coating) per cassette because the cassettes were ~only
> listened to by bimbos walking in the sand on the beach~.
>
> The stories I could tell....
>
> /m

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