[Arny Krueger]

"duty-honor-country" wrote
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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

In what sense? In some sense the BIC hit 17 KHz. They just didn't do it when
the chips were down, and some other less-demanding times as well.

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

I'd like to see a test report for one of the exotic Naks along the line of
the BIC report I just analyzed.

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

CDs don't necessarily sound sterile and harsh. They simply sound like
whatever was recorded on them. If they are recorded with stuff that is
sterile and harsh, then there you go.

What CDs don't do is round off the rough edges that may have been recorded
on them, which is what the cassette format clearly does.