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- From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DCC -- JUST SAY NO! (was: The end of cassettes,
- Message-ID: <27617@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:47:48 GMT
- References: <BxKt78.2Hu@unix.portal.com> <24214@alice.att.com>
- Reply-To: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In rec.audio, jj@alice.att.com (jj, curmudgeon and all-around grouch) writes:
- >Must I again point out that a second-generation DCC (analog interface
- >between decks) is going to sound pretty bad? (Well,
- >"bad" is relative, perhaps I'm picky.)
-
- Yes you must. But you don't explaing why you think this. I don't expect
- multiple generation (analog or digital) copies on DCC or MD to be bad. Why
- do you?
-
- Are you thinking that the first generation will compress the data by
- throwing away 80%, so therefore the second generation must throw away
- another 80% of the 20% left, leaving only 4% of the original music?
-
- If this is your thinking, then here's mine. The first compression
- will remove 80% of the information, but the second time through the
- system, almost nothing will be removed, because it was all removed
- in the first pass.
-
- I don't expect multiple analog DCC or MD copies to hold up as well as
- DAT, but I expect it to be better than any cassette format.
-
- Have you heard (:-)) otherwise?
-
- If you have some evidence that multiple generation copies will be
- bad, please let us know about it. If you don't, please stop passing your
- theories along as if they were facts.
-
- Curt
-