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A chipped
stylus will rip up an acetate record with only one
play in some cases the never played out to the end.
This was due to the lower sound levels, and mostly
due to the stylus pressure of one ounce, or about
30 grams. Radio stations used acetates for commercials
and other "spots." These lasted about 50 plays,
due to the fact that they tracked them at about
5 grams but with today's playback technology and
modernized styluses causing less damage to the acetate
records, The Author can safely tell you there have
had reports from DJs of acetates lasting over 100
plays, and still going. When mastering to CD the
Recordable CD or CDR is used in a similar way to
acetates, with the sound being checked from a CDR.
These DJs spent the money just like water flowing
down a river canal, because they felt that it gave
them that little bit of superiority in musical taste.
Indeed, no
other recording companies had created such influence
on the Western Hemisphere record buying market as
Victor and Columbia Records, while their London
partners had the same effect upon the rest of the
world. Between 1907 and 1910 Columbia Records made
an approach to Victor's cultural distinction by
letting loose records from Europe and later re-establishing
its own recording sessions with operatic singers.
Victor Records was quite late off the mark they
did not marketed the double-side phenomena until
1923. By that time Columbia Records had already
flooded the market with their double-sided discs
and the new double-sided recording trend became
all the rage; they were high and in full swing as
they had already gained a foothold throughout
Europe before any other recording company therefore,
Columbia had little or no competitors to worry about.
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