Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!allegra!eagle!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!tesla!jeff From: jeff@tesla.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD availability Message-ID: <86@tesla.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Jun-83 19:02:50 EDT Article-I.D.: tesla.86 Posted: Wed Jun 1 19:02:50 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jun-83 09:16:02 EDT References: tesla.82 Lines: 14 Jordan Marsh in Boston has a Magnavox CD player on demo. They sold the only one available for sale within the first hour they had it on demo, for $800. And that was before they had ANY CD`s to sell with it; the person who bought it only had the demo disc packed with the player to amortize is investment with. BUt JM now has about twenty-five CD`s, all European pressings (DG, Philips), at $20. Incidentally the Philips/Magnavox literature that JM has says the A/D in the player is 16-bit. Will some information-theory expert out there please go and study up on that Philips Technical Review issue that summarized CD technology in 1982, and explain why they think they can make that statement, and what`s the difference anyway? No dilettante answers, please--professionals only, so we don`t distribute misinformation, rumors, etc., on this net. Jeff