I kinda remember a playback device for singers that music minus-ed the singer from an alblum (tape) sonicly. That must be the same thing. I have an old Fisher 500 tube amp and EV Regency (klipsh style) huge-ass speaker. On the amp it's got like 5 different RIAA curve settings (pre standard). Is this the same thing as the Nykwist stuff?
So, when Nigel in Spinal Tap says "Well, this one goes to *eleven", he actually had a valid point?
I remember some fellows who developed a turntable (right before Sony and Philips started carpet bombing CDs) that used a reflective laser (?) to read music from vinyl records. In a demonstration of the prototype, the fellow ran a screwdriver across a John Cage alblum (okay, maybe it wasn't John Cage and was something less prepared and entirely more objective - in fact it was) Anyway, he laid a screwdriver across the grooves creating a gnarly gash. In fact, it may have been the first time that the phrase "gnarly gash" was used. Then, he put the record on the laser turntable and it *tracked the record! There was only a slight dropout when the laser passed over the gouge.
Soon after that, Sony apparently bought the device/patents/guys (the whole schmear) and it was never to be heard from again. Obviously they couldn't have this hardware thing out there on the market that played the existing media (vinyl records) in high-fi and cause the entire CD industry to go down in flames before they got a chance to sucker the world into replacing their record collections.
Oh! I'm remembering now. Ever the sceptic, I remember taking a Michael Jackson album down to the stereo store in the '80s as they were all falling all over themselves with the new CD craze. I made a bet with the stereo HW idiot that my Michael Jackson alblum would sound just as good as his Michael Jackson CD A-B ing them on the same Samsuchi 10,000 brick laden monster amp deluxe and state of the art twice cooked tweeters.
I compensated for the record by dislodging the rolloff when playing it (leveling the field). The stereo HW guy did NOT correctly guess which was the CD and which was the alblum. Using the rolloff that way; was that a Nykwist thing?
I'd like to go into this much deeper with you, E. I want to run a theory I have by you involving Timeless Quantum Cosmology and proving the absense of time using music. I think you'll have ohmportant input for me. I'll get my stuff together and email it off to you. I have a monster idea.
-JCJ |
