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- Page 9 and 10: Acknowledgements Few types of tortu
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- Page 23 and 24: 2.4 Restricting the bandwidth With
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- Page 27 and 28: 2.8 “Partially objective” copie
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away from the turntable centre. Thi
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4.6 U-shaped and V-shaped grooves I
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If one tries to cut a groove of U-s
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possible to make the polishing-beve
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- exactly where steel and jewel sty
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From 1953 to 1959, the British Stan
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no cantilever at all, so when the c
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angle. It may be necessary to “mi
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Although my next point is not capab
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Unfortunately the author simply doe
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only hope for removing them without
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For other discs, the present-day tr
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4.17 Electronic click reduction The
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whilst keeping the waveform, we mus
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un them all in real-time. This help
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tolerance to background-noise have
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wanted sound from two copies. No
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23: Girard and Barnes, “Verticall
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that “Pictures are King,” and s
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5.3 History of speed-control in vis
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films. This was so such films could
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Finally, there are a few anomalous
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then ran at these speeds, which wer
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The next complication is that acous
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to collect evidence of the performa
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frequency is 60Hz. If it is recorde
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the documentation can be a very use
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6.2 A broad history of equalisation
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frequency range to give acceptable
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frequency response to 15kHz; it is
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cassettes, and relatively few discs
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Section 6.8 (plus others such as st
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extends all the way up to 20kHz, an
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It isn’t usually possible to defi
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electrical property of wire I menti
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This sounds truly horrible today, a
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There was an increase at high frequ
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The world’s first frequency recor
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6.22 Summary of equalisation techni
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6.24 Recognising recordings made on
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published in Britain in August 1929
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field magnet, but by 1934 a version
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6.33 How to recognise Blumlein cutt
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6.39 Summary of how to equalise “
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M.S.S cutterheads were comparativel
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6.47 The Marconi system There is a
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efer you to the summary in section
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D = Decca, Raynes Park H = British
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upwards). Centre-start was abandone
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Prototype Type Ds were used from th
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Transcription Service intended the
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Some manufacturers consistently adv
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3. Published frequency responses, e
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tape was used for carrying calibrat
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two time constants at about 80 and
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said that the graph in Ref. 43 sugg
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4- to 5-db increase in response at
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Ref. 9: Harry F. Olson and Frank Ma
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55: G. A. Briggs, “Sound Reproduc
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without making the checks first, we
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7.3 Bias The solution to hysteresis
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frequency response is usually consi
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For many years, the standard answer
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The CEDAR “azimuth corrector” w
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published by the IEC in 1966), but
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So far we have been talking about o
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I would recommend that an archive s
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order to restore the original sound
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meant inferior high-frequency respo
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mentioned above, we are more likely
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8: Stanley P. Lipshitz and John Van
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Thousands of improvements were prop
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Somewhat more complex types of soun
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transferred as it is without any ph
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Therefore, it might well be advisab
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9 Reciprocal noise reduction 9.1 Pr
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the “CX” system is specifically
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system became generally available,
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decide whether Dolby B has been use
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compression was effective across th
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noise reduction system in Germany a
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Careful level alignment is necessar
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Characteristic “A” was optimise
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This is one of the areas in which y
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alternative restoration processes c
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processing technique which has much
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design. Thus it is absolutely vital
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Shortly afterwards, “CinemaScope
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published with it. A point-source s
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etween the left-front and right-fro
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In the film world, it can also be a
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hand groove wall with the usual equ
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of the original four-channel images
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10: L. F. Rider, “Magnetic Reprod
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Hardly any of the necessary apparat
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content), audible “sidebands” o
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anomalies by operating his pot slow
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With the advent of rock music from
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Fig. 10.2 5 depicts some steady-sta
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You can sometimes detect a limiter
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many seconds of music at reduced po
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REFERENCES 1: Peter Ford, in his ar
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But I agree it might not be ethical
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eight and eleven degrees.” (I sha
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ecame a “three-minute sound-byte
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Unfortunately, it proved impossible
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(1) Quantify the bass-cut by listen
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Most of the surviving metal horns a
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sound to reverberant sound from the
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12.16 Joining three or more horns S
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to Brahms. That was on 18th June 19
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However, these analogies all depend
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12.23 Practicalities of acoustic re
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The first point is that many early
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copied through “an Auxetophone”
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For the fundamental resonances, the
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20: For the Columbia pattern, see P
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gramophone turntables. The two domi
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usually under different catalogue n
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For some years, microphones suffere
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acoustics. Too much of the first tw
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was a wrong note. For a three-month
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afraid that’s right. Seven-inch p
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“floor manager,” although I do
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We saw in the previous section that
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ecordings to be changed. After the
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different classes of artist, togeth
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POP "SINGLE" and POPULAR 12" LP PRI
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13.10.7 Pre-recorded tapes and cass
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only £250. If you’re a computer
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Inc. provided a great deal of acous
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ehind Western Electric, and many ci
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In section 13.4 above I considered
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cause considerable overloads. Withi
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switching was arranged so the louds
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13.20 The influence of naturalism R
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Appendix 1. Preparing media for pla
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Many cylinders are made of material
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the basic principle of using the lo
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Broken Records Quite honestly, the
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individual tracks and the recorded
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Appendix 2: Aligning analogue tape
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e fully de-gaussed before mounting
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its catalogue-entry), so future eng