Re: [ARSCLIST] Cook Binaural LPs

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

At 08:05 AM 6/18/2004 -0700, Richard L. Hess wrote:

> At 10:41 AM 6/18/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> > Does anyone on the list have any experience with the Cook Binaural
> > System? Cook Labs of Stamford, CT issued some 33 1/3 12" LPs that have to
> > be played on a twin tonearm turntable. The front of the album says "For
> > use with the the 1-11/16" standard Cook system. Playback outside track -
> > 12 db @ 10 kc. Playback inside track - flat. 500 cycle crossover both tracks."
> >
> > I have 8 of these albums in front of me and am curious if anyone has
> > knowledge of the extent (and dates) of the Cook binaural experiment and
> > if anyone has ever seen the Cook turntable.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Peter Hirsch

Sorry I missed the original post (or it is delayed in transmission) - and
sorry that my contribution is so slight.

I have only the memory of my first stereo playback. It was the Cook LP
"Gulls and Buoys" - a classic 'ping-pong' sort of sound effects disc. The
year was almost certainly 1955 and I would recognize the reproducer if I
saw it again. The occasion was an English class in my third or fourth year
of high school. I can 'see' that classroom in my mind's eye even now.


Mike
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