Worse, active speakers with an MM phono stage.She's beautiful!
I absolutely love your system.
Marantz, Sony, classic Akai GX cassette and RTR, a modern Focusrite, Technics TT and where's the amplification? Not that Topping thing? *shock horror*
If you were closer, I'd give you a proper matching vintage amplifier.![]()
Philips and Sony argued about the diameter of the CD. Philips’ idea of a 115mm CD had to be shelved because Sony insisted that the long performance should fit on to the disc. Beethoven’s entire 9th Symphony was 74 minutes, and the size of the CD was increased to 120mm, but not larger so that the players can eventually fit in a DIN width.It was not CD that killed cassette, it was CD players in the car, that killed cassette. Once the ubiquitous radio/cassette head unit was replaced with a radio/CD unit, that was the end. Combined with computer based recording of CDRs and people had all the convenience of making their own recordings, but having a somewhat better sounding and resilient format in the car.
Philips and Sony argued about the diameter of the CD. Philips’ idea of a 115mm CD had to be shelved because Sony insisted that the long performance should fit on to the disc. Beethoven’s entire 9th Symphony was 74 minutes, and the size of the CD was increased to 120mm, but not larger so that the players can eventually fit in a DIN width.
Thank you. I learned something.Another urban myth, unfortunately.
The Philips plan was to have a disc the same diameter as a cassette's diagonal length. That is 115mm. So,14 bit, CLV 1.5m/s, 1hr only playing time and a sampling rate of 44.39kHz.
Sony had already demonstrated and produced a 12", 16bit, CAV, 2.5hr, 44.056kHz disc system using CIRC. Sony had advocated for a 100mm diameter disc.
It was the development of EFM (eight to fourteen modulation which, when combined with Sony's CIRC, enabled either the reduction in disc diameter or the increase in playing time as there was a 30% saving in data density. They chose (deliberately) a combination of the two to allow for redundant data for error correction to come in at 120mm.
Beethoven's 9th symphony had nothing to do with with the 120mm diameter. In fact, the longest 9th was an old 1951 mono recording at 74 minutes 33seconds and that would have easily fit on even a 100mm disc diameter with EFM and CIRC with 16 bit content.
These are Argon Audio Forte A5 active speakers. One of the more affordable up and coming European brands.Beautiful setup. Which speakers are these?
I almost wish Sony's 12" CAV format had taken off, just so we could keep the LP album art.Another urban myth, unfortunately.
The Philips plan was to have a disc the same diameter as a cassette's diagonal length. That is 115mm. So,14 bit, CLV 1.5m/s, 1hr only playing time and a sampling rate of 44.39kHz.
Sony had already demonstrated and produced a 12", 16bit, CAV, 2.5hr, 44.056kHz disc system using CIRC. Sony had advocated for a 100mm diameter disc.
It was the development of EFM (eight to fourteen modulation which, when combined with Sony's CIRC, enabled either the reduction in disc diameter or the increase in playing time as there was a 30% saving in data density. They chose (deliberately) a combination of the two to allow for redundant data for error correction to come in at 120mm.
Beethoven's 9th symphony had nothing to do with with the 120mm diameter. In fact, the longest 9th was an old 1951 mono recording at 74 minutes 33seconds and that would have easily fit on even a 100mm disc diameter with EFM and CIRC with 16 bit content.
I almost wish Sony's 12" CAV format had taken off, just so we could keep the LP album art.
Weird footnote, the Nagra D reel to Reel digital tape deck. You could get 4 channels of a 24 bit recording. On the session where I was assistant engineer the engineer/Producer Jack Vad used the two additional tracks running at -10 db compared to the main 2 channels for safety's sake while recording comparatively at "hot" levels and with very dynamic music. I'd say this was the reel-to-reel tape recorder's last gasp:
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Nagra D open-reel digital recorder
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The reels moved real slow, as I recall. I do believe that was something like 180-degree wrap around the heads.Wow, that's an absolutely beautiful deck!
Helical scan 4 head in a RTR style. Is that about 180 degree wrap? Must have been going pretty fast.
The reels moved real slow, as I recall. I do believe that was something like 180-degree wrap around the heads.
It was Jack Vad's but I suspect it moved on down the line when recorders using solid-state storage appeared. It blows my mind that my cheap Tascam handheld has nearly as many features as the Nagra D.Just looked at the review, yeah, 3750rpm on the head drum, so it would have been creeping along...
I wonder where that deck you used is now?
It might be worth mentioning, that tapedecks allowed consumer to listen to music in their own order, the first Playlists. That was a real big thing. CDs did not fill that need, hence the cassette survived for a long time Until the real playlist came along.
It blows my mind that my cheap Tascam handheld has nearly as many features as the Nagra D.