Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!rpk 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 Lines: 19 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''