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- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: 20 or 24 bit digital recording?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.145217.27105@bilver.uucp>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 14:52:17 GMT
- References: <23292@alice.att.com> <1370@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> <MONTA.92Jul24120226@image.mit.edu>
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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- In article <MONTA.92Jul24120226@image.mit.edu> monta@image.mit.edu (Peter Monta) writes:
-
- >Now if we rate the LP at 70 dB SNR at best (is this generous?), i.e.
- >11 bits, then the physical resolution is 0.5 um, which is at the
- >edge of reasonableness. There remains piezo noise and distortion,
- >thermal noise in the preamp, etc. which I don't really know any
- >numbers for.
-
- One of the engineers at Micro-Accoustics (years ago) told me
- their cartridge would respond to 1/2 micron.
-
- Now have I gotten totally screwed up (that is highly possible)
- but 1/2 micron is 1/2 of a millionth of an inch, which is a bit
- smaller than 1/2 of a millionth of a meter.
-
- 70db is a reasonable figure for a carefully crafted state of
- the art pressing. A pure lacquer (the master) can approach
- 80db.
-
- Volume consumer pressings run much less.
-
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