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From: schachte@ittvax.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: A-B Tests - Whither digital audio, really...
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 11:17:36 EDT
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> ... why should we go analog anyplace?
> AT&T-Bell Labs has released photographs of a direct digital
> speaker.D/A in the air, so to speak.

But when do we get digital radio?  It might take a tremendous
bandwidth to get sufficient error-correction coding, but it would be
worth it for hissless sound.  And maybe some signal-compression
techniques could be used.
-- 
				Peter Schachte
				(decvax!ittvax!schachte)