the higher prices commanded by CDs. I think that the consumer will end up paying more one way or the other.
A few words about the sound quality: these samples were made using MacRecorder and SoundEdit at a sampling rate of11K per second. This means that frequencies over 5.5kHz were lost, but the alternative would have been to have a maximum sample length half of what we have. From an editorial point of view we chose to take the length, at the sonic expense. That covers the “recording” end of the topic. At the “playback” end, it was then necessary to chop the sound files into short pieces so that there is enough room in memory to play them back; otherwise, the maximum length
