Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Re: Vinyl vs. CD recordings Message-ID: <1374@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 09:12:06 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxl.1374 Posted: Thu Sep 27 09:12:06 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 06:08:06 EDT References: <1676@inmet.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 12 What I've read about the idea of laser-reading conventional analog records is that it doesn't work well, because the laser *doesn't* distort the groove while it plays it. A conventional stylus distorts the groove while playing it, so that the sound comes out 'right'. -- _____ /_____\ "Sink the Lousia?" /_______\ |___| Snoopy ____|___|_____ ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert