So that if you turned over a stack of records on a changer it would
scrape by and go to the next one... The few I have seen played for
maybe 15 seconds, the pitch was so sharp!
<L>
Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Jun 17, 2006, at 5:53 PM, seva wrote:
> at one point i heard that such a record needed to have grooves on the
> other side for some reason or another, although i can barely imagine
> why. to balance the surface tension? (joke). to give better
> traction on the other side? who might know about cutting vinyl like
> this? (mr. olhsson, hello). i do know you can cut acetates this way
> since the acetate has a metal inner disk (i've got some single sided
> acetates). maybe there's some problem in the pressing if there's no
> grooves?...
|