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- From: Jonas.Palm@orgk3.lu.se (Jonas Palm)
- Subject: Re: CD SOund QUality
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- References: <1h17e4INNrkv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <24459@alice.att.com> <1992Dec21.213820.2737@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> <24463@alice.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:51:17 GMT
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- In article <24463@alice.att.com>, jj@alice.att.com (jj, curmudgeon and
- all-around grouch) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Dec21.213820.2737@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> ledzep@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (carl.w.muhlhausen) writes:
- > >jj,
- > >
- > >I (and I think other rec.audio crazies) would be interested in what
- > >audible improvements we'd get out of more dynamic range and a
- > >higher sampling rate. I was under the impression that 16 bits
- > >gives more dynamic range than we need and a higher sampling rate
- > >would benefit dogs and bats but few humans.
- >
- > Well, I'm not sure I'd say that one would get ANY benefit out
- > of more that 16 bits in a PROPERLY RECORDED CD. Now, having
- > said that, my experience is that a lot of the CD's I own (I
- > do Audio signal processing for a living) are simply
- > not recorded decently. <This from looking at spectra, levels
- > and such taken DIGITALLY from the CD> So, I think that
- > 18 bits might help the poor recording engineer.
-
- ..goes on to discuss sampling rates...
-
- Could you please make the above statement absolutely clear.
- Do you mean that the recording engineer should have (say)
- 18 bits at his disposal, for instance in order to be able to
- maintain a reasonable safety margin when recording, but that
- 16 bits should then be sufficient in the actual CD-medium?
-
- The recent article in the JAES some months ago about noise
- in the recording-playback chain would seem to imply this, but
- you may not agree.
-
- Jonas Palm
-