pfarrell;381446 Wrote: > What we fail to remember these days is that the RedBook spec was > publicly released in 1980. At that time, a 1 megahertz computer was 20 > feet long and cost a million bucks. Such a mainframe would have maybe > 2 > megabytes of ram. Moore's law has taken us a long way since then.
Actually I remember it well, and have pointed it out to others too! Some of the earliest 'affordable' CD players weren't even capable of 16 bit reproduction! They used a single 14 bit DAC, and an analog sample and hold circuit so that it could be shared by both channels! Those players had a fixed delay, of 11us between the left and right channels.... Life is full of such examples, remember Bill Gates saying that no one could possibly need more than 640k of ram? We just installed a second server at work with 128 Gig's of ram, because our 64 Gig machines aren't able to run our larger designs... Cheers! Dave -- DCtoDaylight Audiophile wish list: Zero Distortion, Infinite Signal to Noise Ratio, and a Bandwidth from DC to Daylight ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DCtoDaylight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57631 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
