On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:20:46 +0100, qwerty <miro.merlak@vip.hr> wrote:
quoted 17 lines I know this ain't answering your question, so sorry for that, but why> > I know this ain't answering your question, so sorry for that, but why
> > not send a CD-R?
> > It's the digital millenium ffs!! :)
>
> Fuck the digital millenium! :-)
>
> Here are some facts about why HD/Digital recording sucks:
> - It sounds bad
> - It is subject to unrecoverable data loss
> - Archiving is extremely dangerous
>
> Here are some facts about why Analogue recording is superior:
> - It sounds good
> - Unrecoverable music loss occurs only upon the total destruction of the
> medium
> - Archiving is excellent
>
Yeah, however nobody has ever suggested to me that one might need to
wrap a CDR in aluminum foil for shipping purposes.
Digital recording doesn't "sound bad" unless you are using tiny
samples or too low of a sampling rate. Archiving digital data isn't
at all dangerous. in fact, you can record hundreds of copies across
multiple digital formats with no quality loss whatsoever. let's see
analogue do that. both formats are subject to unrecoverable loss, but
again, if you lose your analog masters you have lost a generation of
quality, whereas you can lose digital masters, and a copy of a copy
sounds just as good as the original.
Honestly, both formats have their advantages and disadvantages, and
clinging to one because it's "superior" closes your mind to the
possible advantages of another for given applications. If you're
talking about analogue audio tape, such as the original poster was,
it should be obvious to you that a CD is going to have better fidelity
and frequency response than audio tape. if you consider a hiss that
drowns out your high frequencies to be "warm" well i suppose that's
your perogative, but i for one would rather hear the recording than
artifacts of the recording media.
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