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- From: Jonas.Palm@orgk3.lu.se (Jonas Palm)
- Subject: Re: CD Sound under attack again. Was: Re: Preamp and Amp
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- References: <1993Jan19.172138.29081@bnr.ca> <1993Jan19.202654.9148@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan20.014644.14794@midway.uchicago.edu> <5494@calmasd.Prime.COM>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:09:48 GMT
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- In article <5494@calmasd.Prime.COM>, jpb@calmasd.Prime.COM (Jan Bielawski)
- wrote:
- >
- > Which reminds me... An analog tape recorder cannot reliably record
- > more of the frequency spread than about 8 1/2 octaves. Beyond that range
- > the frequency response is probably too low to be called "high fidelity."
- > If the tape moves fast one can record high frequencies very well but
- > not the low ones as the corresponding magnetic flux with respect to any
- > tape segment changes too slow to magnetize that segment strongly enough.
- > If the tape is moving slow then the highs disappear. No matter what, the
- > recordable frequency range is fixed although it can be adjusted up or
- > down by choosing the tape speed.
- >
- > My question is: why aren't CD critics bothered by this? To me
- > it's a serious problem that seems to indicate that the only analog way
- > to record is direct to disk.
- >
- > Jan Bielawski
- > Computervision, San Diego
- > jpb@calmasd.prime.com
-
- My best analog tape recorder achieves 20Hz-20kHz +-0.5 dB.
- Tested in Real Life, and IMHO, Good Enough.
- (Hell, it even extends quite a bit beyond 20kHz, not that I find it
- particularly useful being effectively deaf beyond 18kHz.)
-
- There are quite a few people in this forum who have experience with
- recording music. I have yet to see any one of them claim that the
- deciding factor in the quality of a recording today is whether the
- music is fed to a digital or an analog recorder in the end.
-
- It would be interesting to hear their opinion of what the limiting
- factors usually are in the production of a finished recording, and
- how these limitations compare to the limitations at the playback end.
-
- Jonas Palm
-