[klaatumail] Re: Technical Question - no KK
- From: Marc Tobolski <marc_tobolski@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:39:28 -0700
My first thought is that it might be one of the many remixes off the 40th
anniversary release.
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On Mar 14, 2012, at 6:35 PM, A F <tnshell40@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Okay, the other day I was swapping out CD's in my car and when I do that, for
> some reason when I eject a CD it defaults to an AM station (no I am not
> asking why, but you need this for the set up).� Well it is set to a talk
> station (I guess from the previous owner, when I swtich mode, I goto FM and
> have not even set the AM stations, but I digress) and I was surprised to hear
> Bowies Space Oddity (sp?).� I was like okay�but I started to listen.
> �
> It was at the begining of the song and I thought 'this mix is odd' (at first
> I thought it was that odd ball mix that is on youtube that Bowie was never
> thrilled got released) and then it was like half the song disapeared and when
> you got to the count down, you heard that but not the other half of the
> song.� I knew then it was like when a stereo speaker goes out and you only
> hear half the song (think Beatles or the Wall by Floyd when one speaker is
> out).� The vocals that should have been heard during the countdown are that
> down the well echo sound and I thought that is annoying, then it dawned on
> me, I am on AM - MONO AM.
> �
> At first I thought I had one of those rare AM/FM radios with AM Stereo (that
> still around?) then I thought 'what if a speaker went?' so a quick speaker
> test.� I goto CD #4, Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn and the end of
> Interstellar Overdrive with it's criss cross madnes and then slow cross fade
> (hear that on an early CD with head phones you can almost hear the CLICK of
> the board as one side of the channel dies and starts the cross fade back to
> the other side on the outro) and I realized, no all stereo functions a go!�
> Then I re-load the two discs I changed out and went on my merry way.
> �
> But since then the WAIT A MINUTE factor has been going off in my head.�
> Though they used the stereo mix of the song shouldn't have the song collapsed
> back onto itself on the reception of my car as an Ad Hoc mono?� How can the
> car/stereo reciever recognize it was stereo yet only play half the track
> UNLESS (and this is where I think I answer my own question, but going to
> bounce it off you guys anyway) even though they are a talk station on AM in
> MONO (you can't miss that high quality mono sound from this station) but may
> have used a signal for stereo and the equipment (ie transmitter) did the best
> it could do with the parameters it had to work with.�� The were doing a
> stupid tie in with the lyrics (trying to be funny I assume) and that is why
> they even played part of the song.
> �
> Any ideas? Thoughts? Questions? Winning lottery numbers you want to share
> with me BEFORE they are drawn?�� Let me know.
> �
> Alex
> http://www.youtube.com/user/100dollarklaatubid
>
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