You're not wrong at all Francis - you have to place it on the turntable spindle as close to centered as you can and yes, there's only a small usable area for the music - think it might be about 5 mins worth - the grooves seem very tight but I was suprised by how good it all sounded.
You might have difficulty with a semi-automatic turntable that switches off at the end of a side. Not so good for scratching and quick cuts then! cheers Jason On 9 June 2010 11:27, <fran...@thatamazingthing.com> wrote: > I'm a little puzzled about some of the technical details also: > > What size is the hole in the middle? Presumably it has to be large enough to > accommodate the 15mm-ish spindle CD players use? Do > you get some special adaptor for the smaller spindle on a vinyl turntable? > > & I make a CD to be only just larger than the "label" area on a conventional > modern record. So either it only has a few seconds > playing time or (more likely) it has a playable groove extending further > toward the centre of the disc? But not all tone arms will > move this far, some only expect to get as far as the run out groove of > conventional vinyl and their range doesn't extend beyond > that. > > Or am I being really stupid & not visualising this thing correctly? > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: mistamuthaf...@yahoo.com [mailto:mistamuthaf...@yahoo.com] >> Sent: 09 June 2010 1:48 >> To: ja...@iridite.com; 313@hyperreal.org >> Subject: Re: (313) ANOTHER Mills album (and the future of Music Formats??) >> >> I'd like to think that the extra weight on the spinner in the CD player >> would cause the electric motor to burn up > slowly...especially the >> older ones. Those CD players were designed to handle the weight of a CD, >> not a CD/record. >> >> Then again the CD/DVD combos seem to work ok in their players even though >> they are thicker. >> ------Original Message------ >> From: ja...@iridite.com >> Sender: irid...@gmail.com >> To: 313 list >> Subject: (313) ANOTHER Mills album (and the future of Music Formats??) >> Sent: Jun 6, 2010 6:12 AM >> >> Got another Mills album in - The Occurance and I've never seen >> anything like it. >> >> It's a CD. But you turn it over and it's a mini-vinyl disk. With >> music on it. That you play on a normal record player. So that's two >> formats for the price of one - anyone ever seen anything like this >> before? >> >> Wow - he's The Man From Tomorrow alright! >> >> I've been a bit too scared to put the CD in my computer to listen to >> the album (it looks a wee bit thicker than a normal CD but that could >> be an illusion) so I can't give any reports on it yet! >> >> cheers >> >> Jason >> >> >> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > >
