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- From: ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec)
- Subject: Re: DCC -- JUST SAY NO! (was: The end of cassettes,
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.001447.15244@dgbt.doc.ca>
- Organization: The Communications Research Centre
- References: <24214@alice.att.com> <27617@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Nov17.231246.137@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 00:14:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.231246.137@nas.nasa.gov> fineberg@nas.nasa.gov writes:
- >In article <27617@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes:
- >|> In rec.audio, jj@alice.att.com (jj, curmudgeon and all-around grouch) writes:
- >|>
- >|> 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.
- >|>
-
- Sorry to disillusion you. Each pass will further degrade the signal.
- Sufficient multiple passes and even a tin-ear can hear the now-huge
- differences from the original.
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- Ted Grusec - Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
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