On 23 Apr 2004 at 21:26, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > No not in that league, I prefer the higher fideliy sound > of good vinyl LPs. ( Although 24bit/96KHz digital recordings are > getting pretty damn close!)
I'm running a 24/96 data stream for all my d-audio chain now and yes it's pretty good. > There is an analogy here though. There is a special disc mastering > technique for vinyl LPs where the master tape and the master disc cutter > run at half speed. These "half-speed mastered" LPs have astonishingly > high sound quality and details. In that case slower is better. I agree that there is a definite advantage to half speed mastered analog discs (I do have a few) but I don't believe that this advantage can't transposed to the concept of digital storage media. The digital drives are designed to write at speed, the whole concept of personal CD writing is a contortion of the original CD concept (which only encompassed professionally mastered pressed discs for audio). The speed ratings are only referring to the data rate for a normal audio disc at play, ie a relative bench-mark not an indication of quality. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
