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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: More CD skipping...
- Message-ID: <184331@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:15:01 GMT
- Sender: news@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1992Nov17.103254.881@cmkrnl.com> jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- >
- >This is due to small differences in the track pitch between European and
- >domestic CD mastering plants. CD players and disks intended for the U.S.
- >market are set up based on the Engligh system of measurements, while European
- >ones go by metric-based standards. You can often get a metric CD to play on an
- >English player, or vice versa, but it's like trying to use an SAE socket wrench
- >on the head of a metric-sized bolt... it just doesn't fit very well.
- >
- Actually a 1/2" wrench fits a 13 mm bolt better than a 13 mm
- wrench does.
-
- But if you carefully wash your British CD's with Earl Grey tea,
- they will play on American players. German CD's must be washed
- with beer, Russian CD's with vodka, etc. etc.
-
- >
- >:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
-