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From: strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Restoration
Keywords: loudspeaker, speaker, bibliography
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Date: 21 Jul 88 14:27:31 GMT
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In article <4867@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> vdsvax!thearlin@steinmetz.UUCP (Thearling) writes:
}
}>In article (Paul Gallagher) writes:
}>Here's a question maybe someone out there can answer:
}>Why isn't it possible to completely restore a recording: for example, 
}>to removeall extraneous noise (hiss, clicks, coughs)
}>
}
}I recall seeing something on TV (PBS?) about the recording restoration
}lab at the New York Public Library.  They have loads of equipment to
}do just this.  From what I remember, they spend most of their time
}restoring old cylinder and 78 recordings.
}
A company named Sonic Solutions has come up with a rather complicated computer
program for removing noise, etc from old recordings.  It doesn't operate in
real time; in fact, it takes all night to clean up one side of a 78 at a rate
of 54 million computations per second.  (sounds fast to me.)

What do they call this process?  No Noise, of course.
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Norm   (strong@tc.fluke.com)