DeserTBoB wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:03:43 -0700, DeserTBoB
wrote:

Columbia kept their Masterworks catalog at 7½ for a couple of
years after they'd slowed the pop catalog ("red label") down, but the
"gray label" stuff eventually went to 3¾ as well...to the howls of
audiophiles everywhere. snip

...as they did when prerecorded consumer tapes went from 2 track to 4
track...which was a bigger drop at the time, due to noisier tape.

WRONG- the 4 track tape isn't noisier, it just has tracks that are not
as wide, you DUMB ASS- because they are squeezing 4 tracks onto a 1/4"
tape, instead of only 2 tracks on a 1/4" tape

and you failed to mention, going to 4-track enabled the QUAD REEL
format- and it also enabled them to play both sides of the tapes for
STEREO recordings- therefore doubling the recording time available from
the same length of tape

what about those benefits ??

you need to take your LIBERAL GLOOM AND DOOM philosophy ELSEWHERE,
because we're sick of hearing the "they" did this, and "they" did that

"they" is you and me, we're all AMERICANS, unless of course, you really
are an ILLEGAL SCUMBAG BEANER like I said you were...

go back to Mexico, lowlife...