XPost: rec.audio.pro, comp.dsp   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Mike Rivers   wrote:   
   >   
   >This is true with recording equipment, but then consumers   
   >never were all that enthusiastic about recording beyond   
   >copying their LPs to cassettes to play in their cars. CDs,   
   >on the other hand (remember, they're digital) were quickly   
   >embraced by consumers before they ever dreamed of being able   
   >to record them at home.   
      
   This sort of brings up what I would consider the only significant technology   
   to come out of the consumer audio world: 2-channel stereo.  Most of the   
   experimental and cinema work on stereo was done with three channels.  When   
   home tape recording became available, it soon became relatively simple to   
   add a second head and make staggered-head stereo recordings.... it was really   
   quite a craze and it caused a small boom in the popularity of stereo without   
   which the stereo LP might not ever have been developed.   
   --scott   
      
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