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Bring out the sandbags! The American music industry is already at war with a new audio technology that is expected to land in U.S. stores sometime this year. The enemy is the digital audio tape, yet another advance in high-quality sound reproduction that will be marketed by Japanese electronics firms. DAT's imminent arrival on U.S. shores has stirred a protectionist outcry from an entire industry, all the way from record-company headquarters in Manhattan to sound studios in Los Angeles...
...technology takes consumer electronics one step beyond the compact disc. Like CDs, DAT is a product of the digital recording techniques that use computers to sort sound into billions of bits of information before they are put on magnetic tape. While current models of CD players can only play music, however, digital tape machines can also record live music and copy other recorded music...
...cassettes and the machines needed to play them is high enough so that the new technology will probably appeal, at least initially, chiefly to real audiophiles. Similar in appearance to ordinary analog cassettes but about two-thirds the size, DATs are expected to cost about $12. At first, digital tape machines will set buyers back anywhere from $1,000 to $1,500, vs. $200 to $600 for CD players...
...make their best claim to sovereignty. Basically, this disk features four-chord power rock played with an abandon utterly lacking in most AOR music. It doesn't matter what material Squirrelbait chooses--from an original composition sensitively entitled "Black Light Poster Child" to a cover of Phil Ochs' "Road Tape From California"-- every song on skag comes out rough and tumble...
Caught in a crossfire of deceit, red tape, censorship and logistics, truth is usually an early casualty in any war. Guerrilla conflicts are especially difficult to cover, since there are no front lines and battles are usually fleeting. Nonetheless, the secrecy surrounding the contras is both excessive and ill conceived. After all, the Reagan Administration has made the rebel effort a centerpiece of its foreign policy. Congress, which approved $100 million in military aid last summer, is likely to debate the issue of further help later this month. Without extensive and independent reporting about whether the contras are making progress...