https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 04 May 2026 17:50:01 +0000 Wed, 03 Nov 2021 13:13:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=5488 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59451&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59451 Author: eric_a
Subject: 5488
Posted: 03 November 2021 at 1:13pm

Wow, I forgot I had started this thread.

By chance, just a few weeks after that post, I started
working part-time at Sony Music during grad school. While
I found some fellow music nerds at SME who were aware of
the mystery, no one knew the answer.]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2021 13:13:36 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59451&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59451 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59447&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59447 Author: Stanko
Subject: 5488
Posted: 02 November 2021 at 7:52pm

This is one of those mysteries we might never get an answer to (but
someone obviously knows) like what the prefix letters for RCA catalog
numbers stood for (AHL1, AFL1, etc)]]> Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:52:44 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59447&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59447 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59446&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59446 Author: Paul Haney
Subject: 5488
Posted: 02 November 2021 at 1:17pm

aaronk wrote: It took them only about 10.5 seconds to reply!

That's slow for them!]]> Tue, 02 Nov 2021 13:17:31 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59446&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59446 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59445&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59445 Author: aaronk
Subject: 5488
Posted: 02 November 2021 at 7:55am

The Hoffman crew has already debunked the DADC theory as inaccurate. It took them only about 10.5 seconds to reply!]]> Tue, 02 Nov 2021 07:55:33 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59445&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59445 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59444&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59444 Author: aaronk
Subject: 5488
Posted: 02 November 2021 at 7:47am

I found this online:

The “triangle-in-circle” symbol beneath the CD format logo at 3 o’clock also denotes this as a U.S. DADC pressing.

http://www.keithhirsch.com/cd-gallery/other]]> Tue, 02 Nov 2021 07:47:45 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59444&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59444 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59443&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59443 Author: vanmeter
Subject: 5488
Posted: 02 November 2021 at 7:37am

I work in the industry and can tell you nobody there now knows, either, at least in the people that I routinely associate with. ]]> Tue, 02 Nov 2021 07:37:18 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59443&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59443 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59441&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59441 Author: mjb50
Subject: 5488
Posted: 01 November 2021 at 10:10pm

They're up to 65 pages on the Steve Hoffman forums thread, and still no closer to figuring out the true meaning(s) of this mysterious symbol.

Given that it only appears on side 1 of many LPs, or on what is ostensibly the plug side of promo 12"s, I would think it's a side designation, or maybe just "start here" (triangle pointing to the first track).

But if that were true, surely someone would have confirmed it by now; I mean, if no DJs can say that's what it was, then it seems unlikely to be the real explanation (unless CBS were just really bad at communicating this expectation).

And then there's the fact that it doesn't appear on 7" releases (or does it?), and it does appear on many CD albums, but inconsistently on CD singles.

Anyway I'm bumping this thread in hopes that maybe someone else out there has something to add.]]> Mon, 01 Nov 2021 22:10:27 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=59441&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#59441 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=25929&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#25929 Author: TomDiehl1
Subject: 5488
Posted: 14 April 2010 at 1:59pm

I remember seeing it on cassette singles when I was a kid, as well (showing up on both sides of the cassette) -- even some free via mail sampler cassettes had the symbol on it....]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:59:33 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=25929&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#25929 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=25915&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#25915 Author: 995wlol
Subject: 5488
Posted: 14 April 2010 at 10:41am

This question has been discussed extensively on the Steve Hoffman forums (18 pages without a definitive answer).


http://stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=199374&highli ght=symbol]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:41:05 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=25915&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#25915 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=25913&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#25913 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 5488
Posted: 14 April 2010 at 7:40am

Hykker wrote: Likewise Columbia & Epic 45s had a "black sun" (for lack of a better description) on their 45s in the mid-ish 70s ('74-75 time frame). Anyone know what that was all about?

I always thought of it more as an oversized asterisk, but that's a good description.   When the list price of 45s rose from 98˘ to $1.29 in 1974, the CBS Records Group used the symbol to designate which releases carried the new $1.29 price. Older titles remained at 98˘ until 1976, when they, too, went to $1.29, and the black sun set.

CBS also used the black sun on promo 45s which, no doubt, alerted those dealers selling promo 45s that they needed to charge more. ;)

As for the triangle-in-a-circle, I thought it was a hazardous waste warning symbol. ;) Seriously, I thought it signified a stylus superimposed on a vinyl record... that is, until it began showing up on CBS CDs, too.    There was a recent thread on the mysterious triangle on the Steve Hoffman boards, but no one came up with a definitive answer.]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:40:29 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5488&PID=25913&title=the-cbs-records-triangle#25913