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Re: [ARSCLIST] Inside start
There is a case to be made for transferring a disc backwards, but unless it's a
particularly worn lacquer I wouldn't see any need for doing it in this case.
EMI sometimes played discs backwards when transferring, on the theory that the
stylus would avoid worn spots. And there are indeed turntables that will play
in reverse (Numark being one).
dl
John Ross wrote:
At 9/19/2007 11:34 AM, Roger Kulp wrote:
Inside start and backwards are not always the same thing.
That is correct. But if you place a tone arm on the outside of a
rotating inside-start record, it will fall off the edge (or stay in an
end-groove), because the groove is a reverse spiral relative to an
outside-start record.
Both types play on a turntable running clockwise. For an inside-start
record to work, the spiral must be opposite to that of an outside-start
disc.
John Ross