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From: hachong@watmath.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Tape Hiss on Telarc CD's?
Message-ID: <16599@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 22:46:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmath.16599
Posted: Wed Sep 25 22:46:21 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Sep-85 08:32:07 EDT
References: <366@eneevax.UUCP>
Reply-To: hachong@watmath.UUCP (Herb Chong)
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Summary: 

In article <366@eneevax.UUCP> ong@eneevax.UUCP (Chong Ong) writes:
>While listening to Telarc's recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3
>and Choral Fantasy in c minor, I distinctly heard a quiet hissing
>in the background, not unlike tape hiss. Does anyone have an
>explanation for this hiss on a digital recording?
>
>In comparison, I did not experience this hissing on the Fresh Aire II
>CD, which is from an analog recording.

i only have the regular analog record of II and the breathing of the
noise reduction system drives me nuts.  passages with only piano and
background sound effects are the worst (the Interludes). by comparison,
the record surface hiss is barely audible at the same levels.

Herb Chong...

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