Peter Hirsch phirsch wrote: > Does anyone on the list have any experience with the Cook Binaural System? > Cook Labs of Stamford, CT issued some 33 1/3 12" LPs that have to be played > on a twin tonearm turntable. The front of the album says "For use with the > the 1-11/16" standard Cook system. Playback outside track - 12 db @ 10 kc. > Playback inside track - flat. 500 cycle crossover both tracks." > I have 8 of these albums in front of me and am curious if anyone has > knowledge of the extent (and dates) of the Cook binaural experiment and if > anyone has ever seen the Cook turntable. Livingston made a special arm with two heads for installing two cartridges of the user's choice to play the Cook "binaural" records. I never saw a specific turntable designed to play these discs. Today, to restore them, I play the tracks into a workstation as separate files, line them up and output the appropriate channels to left and right to make a conventional audio CD. ... Graham Newton -- Audio Restoration by Graham Newton, http://www.audio-restoration.com World class professional services applied to tape or phonograph records for consumers and re-releases, featuring CEDAR's new CAMBRIDGE processes.