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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: More Anti-Digital Fuel
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Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 09:52:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 21 09:52:10 1984
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One might look to see how much unsold analog tapes and LP's are sitting
in the back of the warehouse :-).  Some of this has been well known
from the beginning.  Digital recoding has offered a significant
increase in dynamic range over analog recording media, flatness of
response, etc., etc..  To offer the full dynamic range of CD's to the
consumer, the orignal source must have at least that much dynamic range,
whether achieved by compression, more bits, or different encoding
methods (i.e. floating point or delta modulation).  Greater frequency
response of the master recorder is required so that the cumulative
phase shifts of the various analog and digital filters are minimized;
this means higher sampling rate.  It also will lower the frequency response
error at high frequencies.   Some of the current problems cited for digital
audio systems can be attributed to not having a professional recording
standard that is significantly better than the consumer one.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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