<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MrsPeaches</author><text>For anyone else who was intrigued by this, I found this helpful animation:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vinylrecorder.com&amp;#x2F;stereo.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vinylrecorder.com&amp;#x2F;stereo.html&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hfjfjdjfjceijfj</author><text>Stero channels aren&amp;#x27;t encoded in the depth and radial axes. They&amp;#x27;re encoded in the same plane, but rotated 45 degrees, so a mono record player (depth only) plays a balanced sum of each channel.&lt;p&gt;Edit: mono is radial only, not depth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Digital Needle: Ripping vinyl records with a scanner (2013)</title><url>https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/index.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>I always found this solution to be an incredibly clever and elegant way to encode stereo sound while maintaining backward compatibility.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hfjfjdjfjceijfj</author><text>Stero channels aren&amp;#x27;t encoded in the depth and radial axes. They&amp;#x27;re encoded in the same plane, but rotated 45 degrees, so a mono record player (depth only) plays a balanced sum of each channel.&lt;p&gt;Edit: mono is radial only, not depth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Digital Needle: Ripping vinyl records with a scanner (2013)</title><url>https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/index.html</url></story>