European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Stalled but Ihn japanese fearful of inflaming Trade tensions have held Bock on shipping digital tape machines to Iho United sales. For now. Everyone is awaiting the a Sulls of a study by Iho National Bureau of standards. Which was asked by Congress to Del crime whether the lbs system does indeed reduce sound Quality the report which could come by the end of february could tip the balance both sides have reasons or Compromise equipment makers want to Settle the Rispulo so record companies w la Issue prerecorded mimic on digital tapes. The Lack of these tapes is one reason digital recorders have not sold As Well As expected in Japan and in Europe. For record companies. The impetus to Settle might come from the realization that if Illey Don t now by abandoning on insistence on the spoiler Chip they could lose tie entire Battle. Ii any manufacturer does break ranks and begin setting digital recorders in Iho United sales the record Industry s congressional a Ems would have to move quickly to pass legislation Banning them. That would nol to easy because such legislation could be labelled As anti consumer. There Are already some digital tape machines in ins. Gray Market bought in Europe and Japan and resold in the uni cd slates. Harman Kar Donlic a unit of Harman industries said at the electronics show that it would Start Selling a digital recorder this Spring. Clarion co and Kenwood electronics inc. Have similar plans. Perhaps More ominously e and to classic saturday night live of the 1970s. Bul the editors ratio Oil wide ranging influences. Carter everything irom the Franl stones to private Andersen especially the Carter or a Cross Between a Brandenburg concerto and a twinkle. People Here can name every character in the Jet sons and every character in moby Dick " named in part alter the snoopy Magazine Jimmy Stewart worked or in the of Tadel Tiia Story. Spy also is indebted to late show journalism movies. . Hunsecker of Iveel sme of of Success signs a column about the inner Workings of the new Yoti Rimes. Huntley Haverstock of foreign Cort Spandel is in other familiar Nom can Piuac some of the Magazine s regular targets Fay spy lakes Loo Many cheap Shols Esquire Magazine gave spy a dubious achievement award Imp Long enough already god knows Shore s so much going on in this love a needs skewering Hal to do in so easily is a shamp.1 says Esrow e editor in chief Loe Eisenberg who lulls spy or this reflexive use of an outrageous Adi Clive any hmm they want to make a syndicated columnist lit Smith of the now Fork Daify news says. I think i be Boen very helpful to them i Don t think they be been very Nice to in every Issue a photo of the steely gossip St wearing an Indian headdress appears above a listing of her most frequently mentioned celebrities. Their criticism of me is that i write about the same people Alt the Lime Smith says and they write about the exact same people every in almost every Ssue spy rounds up and upbraid a cast of usual suspects arc enemies now York mayor de Koch and Queens born Developer Donald Trump celebs Tanacs and movie stars politicians and publishers 11 recently announced the spy 100 the most annoying alarming and appalling people place and things in new York and the convicted Wall Street insider trader Ivan Boesky Irish cd Fust president Reagan second. Trump third new Yolk Yankees owner George Steinbrenner attorney Genera Edwin Meese 111 and new York subway gunman Bernhard Goetz placed in the top 10. Says Anderson the big danger is Well do our Job so Well that these buffoons will Slart acting rationally and we won t have anything Howrila narrowest Groove ii s unlikely than a pop up will Ever Malch the length of a Standard 72-minute cd or a 90 minute cassette but advances in disk mastering have helped narrow the dil Terence. According to Bob Ludwig the vice president and chief Engineer Al Wasler disk who mastered the Metal Cha up in the past two years a process called direct Metal mastering has made it possible to Ciao Mote music onto an album Side with less dist Lionor volume loss. There s Deli Lely a trend Lor longer album said Ludwig whose company masters 850 albums a year. The co is the driving Force behind All this and the Casselle. Where Lime is not a Factor Tho music and material have been maximized for the medium. And because most of the major cuts that Are going to be played on Iho radio Are issued As 12-Inch promotional disks or compact disks producers Are less concerned Aboul How loud the record will sound on the radio and a a people arc l Quilo so afraid of having a quieter for compact disks people Are to ing to plan 50 or 60 Man Lesof said Michael Cuscuna who produces. Jazz albums i know i am ii artists have a piece that they want to do that they Don t want to shorten to Ordinary record or a play length. Now they can get it recorded the Way they want it. You can do a 19-minute Cut and it does l have to to a whole Side of a Mora mimic per up Boft Strung groups Loch m Dotty tit have i tired album with Over an hour of hot Drozek. Druary 10,19bb the stars and stripes Page 15
