[78-L] Binaural, duophonic, etc.

Robert M. Bratcher Jr. rbratcherjr at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 25 08:01:59 PDT 2011


I don't own a Cook double groove disc but I'd sure like to try it one day.




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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Binaural, duophonic, etc.

All other things being equal (playback speed especially), it should be possible 
to align the two tracks.

dl

On 4/25/2011 10:41 AM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> I wonder something. If you recorded each track separately then aligned them
> timewise would the playback sound right?
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> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Mon, April 25, 2011 9:31:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Binaural, duophonic, etc.
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> Just came across what looks like a Cook product, BINAURAL 1061 BN by
> Audiosphere Inc., Newark NJ. Hans Pfitzner's Little Symphony Op. 44, Kurt Rapf
> conducting the Vienna String Symphony. Double grooves.
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> dl
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> On 4/21/2011 4:08 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
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>>> I have the 1952 Mercury Wilbur DeParis Cook "Binaural" LP, and wonder how on
>>> earth anyone expected to get proper results using a twin spiral.
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>> You mean Atlantic, don't you?  If so, I have this too, along with a real
>> single groove stereo issue of the recordings that Atlantic issued in the
>> late 50s.
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>>>      (Many many
>>> years ago I stumbled upon a hoarder-of-anything who happened to have a NIB
>>> Cook arm among his detritus.  I begged and pleaded to get it from him, who
>>> didn't even know what it was, to no avail.)
>>
>> That is closer than I have ever gotten to a Cook binaural arm.
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