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Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.
Hello Steven
On 17/06/06, Steven Smolian wrote:
> It's long been a theory of mine that record club issues were cut to
> track more easily on less expensive machines. The most expensive part
> of the retail record business is returns. My real early edition of
> "Bridge over Troubled Waters" on LP seems to have more bass than any
> later issues.
In a stereo LP, the vertical movement is the difference signal, so a
disc can be cut to be more easily played by reducing the separation.
It also helps if the bass drum is placed in the centre rather than in
one channel.
But mono could be hard to track too. I was told the the original LP
issue of Beecham conducting the "Enigma Variations", as issued by
Philips in Europe, would not play on any Philips record player. That
would be in 1955.
Regards
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Don Cox
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