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From: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: Adjust-Speed CD player??
Message-ID: <12789@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 25 Sep 89 18:55:25 GMT
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In article <7814@microsoft.UUCP> brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) writes:
... ... ...
>It's too bad that that music company Southworth recently went bankrupt.
>They had announced a Macintosh II-based set of cards which employed
>similar compression schemes.  They cited 30 minutes of stereo audio on
>a 40 M hard disk with 20 bit samples at a rate of 192 kHz per channel.
>
>Brian Willoughby
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    Wow, maybe certain people got nervous about the
potential ramifications a system such as this has with respect
to the *recording industry*. [Where are those DAT/Writable CD systems anyway -- guess all us
musicians should move to Japan!]
:-) (I don't want to start a big flame about this, but it's been
a sour spot with me for quite some time).
-- 
						-- Rich (rich@eddie.mit.edu).
	The circle is open, but unbroken.
	Merry meet, merry part,
	and merry meet again.