Re: [Sursound] [ot] analog vs. digital

2013-05-02 Thread Eero Aro
Sorry about continuing the off-topic... David Pickett kirjoitti: What amazed me about the quality of the sound on these old cassettes and analog tapes is that the quality has been preserved They are often very good, depending on what kind of a recorder the recording was made. You can also

[Sursound] [ot] analog vs. digital

2013-05-01 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2013-05-01, David Pickett wrote: So, analog still rules! Please die horribly. ;) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-50-5756111, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2 ___ Sursound mailing list

Re: [Sursound] [ot] analog vs. digital

2013-05-01 Thread David Pickett
At 16:47 01-05-13, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2013-05-01, David Pickett wrote: So, analog still rules! Please die horribly. ;) You say that, but I have recently been transferring old cassettes to hard drive and, given that they have a limited bandwidth of about 15kHz, the noise is not

Re: [Sursound] [ot] analog vs. digital

2013-05-01 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2013-05-01, Fons Adriaensen wrote: While I do agree in principle, the 'quality' you appreciate may have more to do with the content or production than with the storage medium. Now that we went off-topic already, I'll have to remind y'all about DSD/SACD. Personally I think it has this

Re: [Sursound] [ot] analog vs. digital

2013-05-01 Thread David Pickett
At 17:59 01-05-13, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2013-05-01, David Pickett wrote: You say that, but I have recently been transferring old cassettes to hard drive and, given that they have a limited bandwidth of about 15kHz, the noise is not intrusive and I have been amazed at the quality -- a