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| 1264.1 | Superior technology or Hype? | COOKIE::ROLLOW | Do the Left thing. | Tue Jul 12 1988 11:34 | 7 |
| Mobile Fidelity has generally done a good job of getting
the better quality master tapes and transfering them to
vinal or CD. I'm not familiar with their cassettes. The
gold may or may not help the media quality and in turn the
sound, but I would expect a superior remastering job for
$26.00. I would also expect better remastering of the $26.00
version of Crime of the Century than the $16.00 version.
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| 1264.2 | How about a CD bracelet ?? | VEEJAY::ECTOR | Stax of Wax, Lbs. of platters | Tue Jul 12 1988 16:54 | 25 |
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re .0
Depends....do you use gold speaker wire, with gold jacks ??
Do you have a "goldtone" Marantz setup. I really doubt the validity
of any statement alluding to a "better sound" from gold discs. Will
they last longer ?? Probably, but I have the feeling that once
again, the recording industry may be pulling a fast one on us. Heck,
if I keep my discs in a normal environment, such as a living room
or den or if I don't leave them lying out, or use them for coasters,
I'd think they'd last a lifetime (however long that is). I've got
reel to reel tapes that I'd recorded 16 years ago, whose sound quality
are fine....no more dropouts now than the 1st time I played them
back. When I recorded them, the word was that they'd be just about
blank inside 8 to 9 years. I've got a 1953 lp that sounds as good
today (better, because of the playback equipment I now use) as it
did in '53. Bigger, better, best.....you get what you can afford
and take your chances. Once you get to the point where you can break
neighbors windows or rattle 20 other cars at a stoplight....where
does a person go ??
The Cruiser
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| 1264.3 | But I thought .... | CSC32::D_RODRIGUEZ | | Thu Jul 14 1988 07:56 | 11 |
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I thought all cd's were written '1's and '0's?
Whats the difference between reading a '1' on a gold cd and a '1'
on an aluminum cd?
If I've got digital recording (on cd's) all wrong, will someone please
inform me?
Thanks,
DanR
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| 1264.4 | :-) | CSSE32::NICHOLS | HERB | Thu Jul 14 1988 11:56 | 5 |
| ask the Au(ral) Ears in Au(dio)
herb
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| 1264.5 | | QUARK::LIONEL | We all live in a yellow subroutine | Thu Jul 14 1988 14:27 | 8 |
| Digital Audio did a test on the Mobile Fidelity gold discs and did
not measure any significant differences between them and regular
discs. MFSL claims a lower error rate with the gold discs, but
all discs are supposed to meet a maximum correctable error rate,
so there shouldn't be a problem here. The only advantage I see
is that the gold is less prone to oxidation than the aluminum.
Steve
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| 1264.6 | There is a possibility that gold is better. | SMURF::BINDER | A complicated and secret quotidian existence | Wed Jul 27 1988 11:47 | 12 |
| If, as has been bruited in the press recently, the paint used to label a
disc will slowly eat its way through the lacquer and then oxidize the
metal, gold is clearly superior to aluminum, because a gold disc will
not suffer this destruction.
If, on the other hand, this problem is a lot of bull, then gold has no
inherent superiority over aluminum. In fact, it has the potential to be
inferior in terms of visibility to the playback phototransistor, because
its reflectance spectrum is limited compared with that of aluminum. But
I don't really think this is a problem.
- Dick
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| 1264.7 | | LESLIE::LESLIE | andy `���' leslie, csse (europe) | Wed Jul 27 1988 15:35 | 1 |
| Bridge for sale, priced in gold cd's...
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| 1264.8 | I don't need it for long :-) | CTHULU::YERAZUNIS | A little boy shows you his butterfly collection... | Mon Aug 01 1988 17:39 | 9 |
| Gold reflects infrared slightly better than aluminum does; that's
why spacecraft typically have gold-plated (rather than aluminized)
thermal shields.
If you lend me a gold brick and an aluminum fry pan, I will gladly
make the appropriate measurements.... :-)
-Bill
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