You're right Seth...

The Nomad is compressing the audio.  A .wav file doesn't necessarily mean 
CD quality.  If it isn't recording at 44.1/1.4 then it isn't CD 
quality.  What he's recording is an MP3 quality WAV file.

Ken
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At Monday 15:53 3/11/02, Seth Breidbart wrote:
> > I was at a Big Wu show last night and ran into a taper using a
> > Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox 20GB player/recorder.  For those of you
> > who haven't seen one, it looks just like a portable CD player
> > (discman style, only a little thicker).  He had it set up to record
> > in WAV at 44.1kHz, 128kb/sec (which is CD quality, yes?  or is it
> > 172k/sec?).
>
>That doesn't make sense.
>
>.wav is CD quality, but you don't get to set bps, you just get
>44,100*2*16, about 1.4 Mb/sec.
>
>Seth
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