Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!ogicse!blake!wiml From: wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (William Lewis) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: CD's and digital audio (was Why I hate CDs) Summary: Stupid Audio Tricks Message-ID: <6296@blake.acs.washington.edu> Date: 19 Mar 90 09:28:57 GMT References: <1554@redsox.bsw.com> <38844@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <2486@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <9204@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Reply-To: wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (William Lewis) Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 16 In article <2486@rodan.acs.syr.edu> amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes: >3. If you think CD's are bad, DAT has a 45DB NOTCH cut in it at 15KHZ, that is > about 1K wide above 3DB. I find this offensive cut worse than anything > cd's could do. In article <9204@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ma299ai@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Jan Bielawski) writes: > What on earth... are... you... talking about????? I seem to remember this being some sort of bizarre copy protection scheme -- the DAT will refuse to record unless there are frequencies in this notch, and commercial stuff will be distributed with those frequencies cut out. It sounds too stupid to be true, but I've heard this several places (now including the net). Real flat response, uh huh ... -- wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (206)526-5885 Seattle, Washington