"Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 17 Jun 2005 at 22:29, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Apparently some people who have been raised in a >> household with a piano or other instrument that was in tune overall, but >> not tuned to A 440 have grown up with perfect pitch that's different >> from "standard", so when they're exposed to the outside world every >> piece of music sounds "wrong" to them. Has to be one of the all time >> bummers :( > >Interesting, most commercial radio stations recorded their music carts or set >the pitch on their CDs/phonos +6% to squeeze in more ad time per hour. The >general consensus was that +6% speed increase was as good as imperceptible to >the vast majority of listeners. I can't ever recall receiving a complaint for >all the time I worked in radio.
When I was an audio technician repairing home stereo equipment it was standard practice to calibrate all cassette decks 0.5% fast, because that's how they seemed to average out in the real world. I one replaced a drive motor and unthinkingly calibrated it to exactly the correct speed. The customer returned it complaining that the pitch was off! -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
