RE: (TV) Quiet around here... Haden / DVD audio techical problems with vibration

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

Maurice, 

Your info below much appreciated as this is a topic 
that I've tried to collect articles and to research over 
the years, and never tire of learning more about it.

Also, you had mentioned Charlie Haden on the list several times
 and I finally got around to checking out his music this weekend 
(mostly the 1991 cd) fantastic stuff---can you tell me anything 
about Haden's saxophone player whose name I had 
never heard of before; he sounds like a combination of Gato Barbeiri[sp?] 
and John Coltrane?

(Slight TV connection: TV sometimes would get bored by interviewer's 
repeated Qs about Coltrane/Miles Davis influence on his playing and TV 
would declare "I don't sit around and spend a lot of time listening to 
Coltrane records anymore".)

I realize NPR most likely won't cover DVD audio, but just curious: I've 
been hearing reports that DVD audio has some problems similar to the 
early/original CD "skipping" or analogue "tape drop-out" playback problems
-----i.e., the present DVD audio technology being sold has the serious problem 
that a very tiny outside vibrations can cause the system to skip or leave a 
second or two of silence.

Anyone on MM list seen any reports or WebPages on this phenomenon, or 
know owners of this new audio format who have experienced problems?


	Leo


-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice Rickard [mailto:maurice@mac.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:49 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: (TV) Quiet around here...


As it's been kind of quiet lately, I thought I'd point out that 
there's a very interesting series on NPR as part of Friday's Morning 
Edition concerning the history of recording technology.  It starts 
with wax cylinder, goes through 78s (interviews with guys who worked 
in a 78 plant--quite risky), the advent of tape (did you know that 
Bing Crosby was an essential figure here?  Oddly, Les Paul's 
invention of multitrack didn't seem to get a mention), on up to the 
LP.  Two more segments to go, and the others are archived on the 
site.  (RealAudio streaming.)

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/technopop/index.html

-- 
Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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