XPost: rec.audio.pro, comp.dsp   
   From: blkcatREMOVETHIS@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/24/2010 3:25 AM, Dick Pierce wrote:   
   > glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:   
   >> On the other hand, the improvements in cassette tapes, especially   
   >> high bias and metal, I believe were consumer side driven. Pros could   
   >> afford to run the tape fast enough, consumers needed   
   >> high quality at low speed and narrow tracks.   
   >   
   > Well, I would disagree strongly. The consumers did not perceive   
   > ANY "need" for high-bias and metal tapes until AFTER the   
   > products were introduced to the market. And the research that   
   > went into the tape formulations themselves was not at all   
   > driven by the consumer market, it wasn't even driven by the   
   > audio market: it was driven by the requirements of high-speed   
   > data recording for computer and scientific use.   
   >   
   > Most of the "research" for the consumer market was, well, market   
   > reserch.   
   >   
   > I would go so far as to say that for the last 40 years, many   
   > audio "innovations" were not driven by either pro or consumer   
   > audio "needs," but were, in fact, hand-me-downs from other   
   > disciplines.   
   >   
      
   THX and the whole surround sound movement is one obvious example of an   
   innovation that was not a hand-me-down.  I'm sure the group can think of   
   others.   
      
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