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- From: chrisc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Chris Christensen)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Compressed audio better than noncompressed?
- Message-ID: <4934@gold.gvg.tek.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 16:39:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: gold.4934
- References: <1992Jul27.003939.1881@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <23326@alice.att.com> <1992Jul27.215314.28049@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Jul27.215314.28049@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> stuartw@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Stuart Woolford) writes:
- >jj@alice.att.com (jj, curmudgeon for trvth in audio) writes:
- >>In article <1992Jul27.003939.1881@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> stuartw@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Stuart Woolford) writes:
- >>>monta@image.mit.edu (Peter Monta) writes:
- >>>>In article <22742@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil
- (Curt Welch) writes:
- >>>>> My guess is that you can probably do something like 8:1 loss free
- >>>>> compression on CD's but designing and building the hardware to do this
- >>>>> in real time is currently too expensive.
- >>>>> So, I'm just wondering when people will start claiming that
- >>>>> compressed audio sounds better than non-compressed becauses
- >>>>> it has been purified?
-
- This thread runs deep!
-
- Personally I *like* 3-6dB of compression at a 2:1 ratio on almost
- anything and it only cost me $460 for my dbx 166..........:-)
-
- I now return you to your regularly sceduled thred.
-
- (Oh and BTW, and just in case you wanted to know, jj *does* speak from
- a solid technical perspective, seasoned with a dose of reality I
- expect :-)
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