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In Reply to: Re: General 45 rpm question posted by radiodaddy on July 19, 2006 at 21:59:28:
It's said that some mastering engineers played the test pressings back through cheap speakers - the kind you'd find in a car AM radio, a transistor radio, or an all-in-one record player, the way most of the consumers would hear it. Put it all up front, dynamics be damned - you had to be able to hear it with the top down at 60 MPH in your GTO.Well, considering the average type of gear these records would be played on, that just made a lot of sense back in the day. Also, have you noticed how 45s of the 50s-60s had bigger grooves, uniformly cut and evenly spaced? That probably explains it too. Variable groove width control apparently wasn't used on 45s until the Seventies.
It's a juicy irony that many present-day digital remasters of old pop and hard rock do the same thing - rip a track from an Epic AC/DC CD into CoolEdit, ProTools, or what have you - the sine wave looks like a solid black bar.
...and there goes yet another reason why I stopped buying CDs eons ago.
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