On 3 Feb 1994, JOHAN BURMAN ELD92 wrote:
quoted 5 lines Theres no absolute limit to the digital technology, the limits comes> Theres no absolute limit to the digital technology, the limits comes
> with the standard. You cannot make the sounds on your vinyl records
> "approach perfection". It would take a new standard to do it, a very
> expensive standard which for sure wouldn't be in the average DJ's
> budget range.
Oh, and a new digital standard won't cost big bucks? These same reasons
you apply to analog can be applied to digital as well.
quoted 6 lines The CD-standard will not allow sample rates above 44.1 kHz as> The CD-standard will not allow sample rates above 44.1 kHz as
> is. This is in my opinion quite enough unless a brand new musicmarket
> directed to dogs appears. A human being cannot hear anything above
> 20kHz (and that is if the hearing is intact, ie on very young babies)
> and considering the Nyquist theorem 44.1 kHz is more than enough to
> satisfy human needs.
But there is still the possibility that the high-end affects the low end
through interference.
quoted 4 lines On the other hand, the resolution of each sample is 16 bits which> On the other hand, the resolution of each sample is 16 bits which
> allow 65536 different levels of sound intesity to be sampled. An
> improvement to 17 bits would give twice the amount of levels, so the
> improvements to the CD-standard should be more bits/sample.
Yeah, but consider analog has INFINITE bits... Volume levels are
continuously variable, only limited by precision.
quoted 2 lines Digital technologies will always be better, easier to use and also> Digital technologies will always be better, easier to use and also
> have a far better sound quality to price ratio.
Figure this -- both mediums are trying to get to the same audio
"nirvana": true reproduction of sound. My reasoning for analog is that
we live in an analog world. Things are not simply on or off, and they
aren't even rounded to the umpteenth decimal point. You could argue that
we could digitize on the molecular level, but even molecular positions
are continuously variable.
Wheee... Digital will always be virtual. Analog is physical, it is real.
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