[duty-honor-country]

On Mar 27, 5:31 pm, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote:
I've always wondered what might have happened if Norelco's
engineers had realized the potential of the format during the
design stage. They might have made different design decisions
that could have extended the life of the format in the marketplace.

That's not likely. The limitations of cassette are those created by short
wavelengths and thin coatings. Nakamichi, et al, pushed the format to its
practical limit.

If you want a better understanding of just what was achieved, you should a
Nakamichi two-speed deck and make half-speed recordings on metal and
premium-iron-oxide tape. This throws into relief everything that's wrong
with slow-speed recording, but isn't readily audible at "full" speed with
most program material.

yet even at 1/2 speed, the NAKS hit 17 khz

I'd like to give hearing tests to everyone on this thread, and see
just how many of you can hear anything above 15 khz

a lot of this is a moot point- it's actually how much resolution is
captured in the 50-15k range, that means the most- extending to 20k
while shooting the 50-15k region full of digital rez "holes", is why
CD sounds so sterile and harsh