> I'd love to hear how many generations it really takes before you start
> to notice the loss. But since I can't make a digital copy from a
> digital copy, I have no way of trying this experiment.
In a completed experiment comparing Sony and Sharp ATRAC (results
of which I never officially released). I did multi digital "SCMS free"
generations with Sharp and Sony. I only kept the 5th and 10th generation
of each. And yes by the 5th generation the degradation is pretty obvious,
by the tenth you'd have to be tone deaf not to notice.
What was interesting is that Sony and Sharp start to sound very different.
Loading them up in Sound Forge also revealed massive changes ... dynamics
had completely gone, actually the files looked nothing like the originals.
If someone is willing to host these files on there WebPages I'll arrange
an unload to them. (they are large .. but only approx 30 secs files at
44/16 ... for demonstration purposes maybe a very high bitrate MP3 *might*
be OK (320bps).
Please note I will be away from Email for 2 weeks, so if you send me some
comments directly, I can't read them until the 13 November. (not coming
into
work during *my* holiday - no matter what the "emergency" is).
Cheers GC
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