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From: mark@motcsd.UUCP (Mark Jeghers)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Any suggestions for building a limiter for my stereo? [GRRRR!]
Message-ID: <388@greek.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 89 15:05:47 GMT
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In article <684@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> collinge@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Doug Collinge) writes:
>>The real answer is evading you all. Music is not a decoration, like wallpaper.
>>Background music is a tool of the Devil. Music in the car is a travesty.
>
>As a musician and composer I have to second this sentiment.  I deplore
>the attitude that music is some kind of pleasant substance to be paid
>for by the hour.  But I guess I have an axe to grind...

[flame on]

What *IS* this prima-donna bullsh*t?!?!  I originally posted a request for
input on what design I should use to build a limiter!  I did NOT ask if
anyone though it was an abuse of the arts to play music in the car (or at
home with limited volume)!  I also did not ask for cocksure morons to say
"well, duuuuh, if you don't want dynamic range, duuuuh, get a record player"!

Please route the discussions about how music should be listened to somewhere
else, like net.prima.donna!

[flame off]

sigh...okay, now...let me repeat myself.  I plan to use the compresser half
of a compander chip.  The slope may be either variable or fixed, but for sure
between 1:1 and 2:1.  Does this seem like a sound implementation?  How about
the NE570/571 chip by Signetics?  No, I don't want to make tapes through my
VCR.  Do any people out there have suggestions or ideas about this?
-- 
Mark Jeghers                       "I'm the King of Eight and I'm here to state
Motorola Computer Systems              that everything here has to total eight!
....uunet!apple!motcsd!greek!mark          The guards, for instance, at my gate
...hplabs!hpda!/                              must always total exactly eight!"