Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!lutton From: lutton@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Cylinder speed - (nf) Message-ID: <1712@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Oct-84 00:57:38 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.1712 Posted: Sun Oct 7 00:57:38 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Oct-84 04:51:13 EDT Lines: 15 #N:inmet:2600108:000:565 inmet!lutton Oct 6 00:00:00 1984 <> Edison cylinders rotated at about 185 r.p.m. Originally they played for only 2 minutes. Later Edison introduced his "Blue Amberol" records that played for 4 minutes. (I think the grooves were closer together.) Not to change the subject (he said, changing the subject), why are the golden ears not telling us how terrible `electrical recording' (using microphones) is, and how the only way to get an undistorted sound is to use a diaphragm directly connected to the cutting stylus, as was done throughout the first fifty years of the recording industry? B-)