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From: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
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Subject: Re: Twenty generations of DAT copies...
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Date: 11 Mar 91 13:52:36 GMT
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> ... the Chesky test CD has a track which is a 100th generation copy
> of a digital tape.  You can compare the copy and the original.  To
> my ears the copy sounded muted and less detailed.

This seems very odd to me.  Has anyone tried to do a *digital*
comparison of the multi-generation digital copies (which ought to
be identical, no?) to see if there really are any differences?  If
there are no digital differences, then I would have to conclude
that any sonic difference is psychological.  Could there be any
other explanation?  If there are differences between the digital
data, is this due to lack of error correction or something truely
insidious?

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