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From:
Mark Schieldrop
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Date:
Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:52:16 -0500
Subject:
RE: [idm] (off topic) sending cassettes thru the mail??
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<20041108205202.URLB5535.lakermmtao06.cox.net@obleque>
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This is worse than MAC vs. PC.
quoted 8 lines Here are some facts about why HD/Digital recording sucks:> > 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
quoted 15 lines medium> > 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.
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