Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site grkermi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!grkermi!andrew From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Newsgroups: net.audio,net.consumers Subject: Re: Re: Turntable Controversy Message-ID: <500@grkermi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 17:57:04 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermi.500 Posted: Wed Jul 3 17:57:04 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 06:20:44 EDT References: <496@leadsv.UUCP> <430@enmasse.UUCP> <9281@Glacier.ARPA> Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Distribution: net Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 22 Xref: watmath net.audio:5233 net.consumers:2511 Summary: In article <9281@Glacier.ARPA> reid@Glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes: >Radio stations use direct-drive turntables because they can be "cued" better. >A radio station DJ needs to be able to accomplish very tight timing. Dead >air is bad. So the DJ puts the needle on the turntable, manually spins the >platter until the song begins, then backs off the platter... > ... > In general, radio stations do not care very much about the audio quality > of their turntables. Nor about their cartridges; the most popular one for radio station use is a Stanton designed principally to withstand constant back-cueing without damaging the tip or snapping the cantilever. >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. (Jukeboxes are also often sped up to force the patrons to feed them more frequently.) AW Rogers