From: RobertB 

In article ,
 "Glenn Meadows"  wrote:

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

Hmm. That's pretty interesting. Very interesting, in fact. So, now what do we do?


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> Glenn M.
> "mike"  wrote in message
> news:na3up251o4393kojah02g9qen7us2v9duo{at}4ax.com...
> > On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:06:09 -0600, "Glenn Meadows"

> > wrote:
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> >>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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