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From: sokay@kurgen.mitre.org (Steve Okay W43)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CD sound
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Date: 7 Nov 90 14:23:33 GMT
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>Re: autosampling on PCs
>
>I hate to say it, but the Mac LC has a built-in microphone port...

I saw the LC up close and personal yesterday at a company demo and
wasn't really impressed. The digitizer is a puck shaped device which
attaches to the back of the machine or sits atop the monitor.
The unit is controlled from the control panel. He digitized a few
samples on the spot, and they sounded kind of muddy, even at 22Khz.
You have to specifically specify compression when saving the sample(s)
, or it/they get written to disk uncompressed. 
The "quickie" demo samples he did took up about 80-90K uncompressed.

It can do mono 8-bit sampling at either 11Khz or 22Khz. When asked about stereo,
the salesdroid made some joke about hacking 2 together to get stereo
and that stereo sound was a ways off for PCs/Macs/whatever. Being
polite, I didn't tell him about my PerfectSound II.
When I asked about the sampling rate, he told me about the 11 or 22Khz
settings and seemed offended that I'd interrupted his evangelization
of the masses.

Personally, I'll take my PerfectSound any day.

>                                                --Rick Wrigley
>                                                fhwri@conncoll.bitnet

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Stephen Okay          Technical Aide, The MITRE Corporation
sokay@mitre.org    
Disclaimer: I get *MYSELF* into enough trouble with my
            opinions, why inflict them on MITRE?