| Title: | Welcome to the CD Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Welcome to COOKIE |
| Moderator: | COOKIE::ROLLOW |
| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Mar 03 1989 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1517 |
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I found the following letter in the "Crosstalk" Q+A section of
the June High Fidelity. I wonder if the author was pulling someone's
leg, but maybe not...
I own an AR turntable and a Fisher 800B stereo receiver
that I got in 1961. Are they ever going to simulcast
in FM-AM stereo again? My receiver makes provision for
these broadcasts, but it's difficult to find them.
Also, I've been having difficulty with the new digitally
recorded records. I couldn't find an adapter for the
larger hole in any store, so I made one from cardboard.
But the tonearm keeps skating across the record. Is this
because the AR has no antiskating?
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| 355.1 | so who's to say ? | GRAMPS::WCLARK | Walt Clark | Mon May 12 1986 14:54 | 1 |
It was probably one of their technical reviewers...... | |||||
| 355.2 | MILDEW::DEROSA | John DeRosa | Mon May 12 1986 18:35 | 2 | |
Don't leave us hanging in mid-air Steve. What was the answer to
that letter?
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| 355.3 | The answer | QUARK::LIONEL | Steve Lionel | Tue May 13 1986 12:42 | 18 |
Here's the answer. Too bad the inevitable sound effects (guffaws)
don't print well...
We don't know just how to break the news, but things have
changed a little since 1961. FM-AM simulcasts were only
an interim make-do while the FCC was mulling over the
proposed stereo-FM broadcast standards. Today's FM-TV
stereo simulcasts presumably will also slip into oblivion
now that the FCC has approved a stereo TV system. In fact,
to the best of my recollection, the FM-AM scheme, which was
never very much alive, was quite dead by the mid-Sixties.
Compact Discs (doubtless what you have made the adapter
for) work on an entirely different principle from LPs and
require a special CD player. There's no possibility
whatever of adapting an AR turntable for the purpose - though
it will, of course, play LPs made from the same digital
master tapes.
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