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From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Sound quality of CDs
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 11:22:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 11:22:00 1985
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> Another CD to avoid is Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled
> Water".  I went and got my tape of the album (to see if the hiss was
> worse than normal cassette levels) and noticed that Columbia hadn't
> even taken the trouble to Dolby-encode it!!!/* Written  8:25 pm  Sep
> 3, 1985 by tdn@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA in ccvaxa:net.music */
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Younger readers may be surprised to learn that the Dolby process
is not very old.  Dolby-encoded cassettes were not common until
about 1972.  I don't know when studios started using the industrial
strength Dolby processing on their masters, but it is quite possible
that Bridge Over Troubled Water pre-dates even that.

-- 
scott preece
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