On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 11:56:00PM -0500, Rick Green wrote: > I had heard the story about phonograph needles jumping out of the > track. It made sense to me. On a stereo phonograph record, in-phase > energy (L+R) is represented as side-to-side motion of the needle, > and out-of-phase energy(L-R) is up and down motion. It can also be > thought of as the left channel is recorded on one side of the > groove(at a 45deg angle), and the right channel on the other side. > It seemed plausible that a kick drum panned all the way to one side > or the other might send the needle into the adjacent groove. It would be a pretty crappy turntable that did that! Probably a plastic arm with no counterbalance with a worn dirty needle. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
