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From: rpk@mit-vax.UUCP (Robert Krajewski)
Newsgroups: net.records,net.music,net.audio
Subject: Re: 16 RPM anyone?
Message-ID: <226@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Jul-83 19:14:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.226
Posted: Tue Jul 12 19:14:30 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jul-83 01:18:30 EDT
References: grkermit.489
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Well, the reasons for the speeds are as follows (or so the folklore
goes)

   16: For radio transcription acetate disks and other mid-fi
       applications where fidelity is secondary to duration on one
       side.

   33: CBS just decided this was a good tradeoff for an LP.  I think its
       easier to make a platter rotate that fast with the parts available
       then, too.

   45: RCA decided to be incompatible (tho it DOES give better sound).

   78: Actually, nobody ever set this offically at the
       beginning.  In the old days, you just cranked until it
       sounded good.
~?

``Bob''