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From: drm2@mvuxn.att.com (David R Moran)
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Subject: Re: What's up with RDAT?
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Date: 30 Apr 91 12:59:19 GMT
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In article <11521@uwm.edu> winalski@psw.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
>In article <11436@uwm.edu>,
>km456265@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Kevin Melsheimer) writes:
>|>
>|>Has anyone heard any information about the new digital format that
>|>is coming out sometime this summer?  Is the new RDAT system supposed
>|>to be as good as existing DAT systems?
>
>The new format is not RDAT (rotating-head DAT).  It is SDAT (stationary-head
>DAT).
>
>--PSW

For whatever it's worth (not much in this forum, perhaps), I heard 
firsthand testimony from Boston Audio Society colleagues I respect
in the January BAS meeting (a WCES wrapup) concerning tough auditioning
tests of DCC (data-compressed SDAT). Peter Mitchell and Brad Meyer
both said that so far as they could tell, using the most rigorous
material (such as L-R low-level piano decay), Phillips had done
their homework and their psychoacoustic testing of in-house subjects 
showing the greatest acuity extraordinarily well .... 

The system sounded superb, in other words -- that is, entirely neutral.

I have not heard it myself, but Peter and Brad are not readily gulled.

David Moran