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From: david@agora.rain.com (David Robinson)
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Subject: Re: Improving
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Date: 21 Mar 91 13:39:02 GMT
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I've wondered about the issue of multi-generation copies of digital sources.
Prior speculation about the subject brought just one private message deriding
the notion that digital could be anything less than perfect, since we all
*know* that the error checking can't be off and all that predictable
sputtering....

Here's a thought experiment:  If algorythms are all that we need,{ shall
we assume that a 1,000th generation of an original 128x oversampled DDD
tape will sound EXACTLY like the master tape?   

Anyone here willing to bet the farm that they would?  And if they don't...
and my listening to the Chesky test CD indicates that this is so after "only"
100 generations...then how can that be?

And how could JVC's new CD unit be "that good"?

And how do we handle "perfect sound forever"...that keeps on getting 
perfecter...???

;-)

david@agora.rain.com

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