[OT] Re: [vorbis] Format comparison

Craig Dickson crdic at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 25 08:20:44 PDT 2001



Myles Buckley wrote:

> Normal LP has two halves in the groove - the L and R channel.
> A Quad channel LP still has to 'halves' in the groove.  Each channel is
> actually BOTH the front channel added in a linear fashion to the BACK
> channel information which is riding on a 'carrier wave.'

Of course, if it had been done this way (it wasn't quite -- see my
message of a couple of days ago), then the rear channels would be
completely inaudible when a quad LP was played on conventional stereo
equipment.

Craig

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