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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.audio,net.consumers
Subject: Re: Re: Turntable Controversy
Message-ID: <1501@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 16:43:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  5 16:43:29 1985
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Summary: 

In article <500@grkermi.UUCP> andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) writes:
>In article <9281@Glacier.ARPA> reid@Glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes:
>>In fact, I have been around several that routinely crank up the speed of
>>their turntables 5% so that the music will take less time, leaving more time
>>for advertisements.
>
>I had always heard it was to make the music sound livelier... but speaking
>as one with nearly perfect pitch I find it irritating.

This is also very annoying when you finally go out and buy a record, put
it on your turntable, and it sounds wrong!  Of course, if you have a
speed control on your turntable, you can just turn it up to the correct
speed again :-)

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