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 quality that mp3 files do not approach.
I have a bunch of cassettes myself, which isn't fully digitized yet. Since I took some pain to make them them the premium hard chrome oxide kind, and tried to care about them over the years, no, they aren't bad at all. So no, there's nothing wrong with well executed analog technology.
The trouble is that at some point the price of comparable digital went well below that of analog, and especially so for well-executed preservatio efforts. (Less well executed, analog is still safer: the digital hard knee which purposely makes it perfect when done right and fully worthless when you mess it up bad enough, can also hit well-intended but badly executed preservation.)
If, as some people do, you actually want to enjoy the music, you can do so with the cassettes that I transferred.
You can also enjoy it using the first digital music file I ever made myself. I can also guarantee it doesn't have a single bit of extra hiss on it, after some 22 years. Can you do the same?
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