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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DCC, MD Limitations
- Message-ID: <184226@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 17:34:54 GMT
- Sender: news@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 42
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- In article <of07=ae00WAuMm90Qm@andrew.cmu.edu> bc2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian T Cheek) writes:
- >What would happen if you recorded a whisper + loud electric guitar sound
- >on either MD or DCC. The whisper would be dropped, correct?
- >
- Well, how far below the guitar was the level of the whisper? In
- other words, was it audible or not?
-
- But your point about not using "consumer-oriented" formats for
- serious recording work is IMHO correct.
- >
- >How can people tell the difference between real pianos and sampled ones?
- >Real piano strings resonate the other ones. (Hard to hear, but you
- >don't want to throw them away, now.
- >
- I don't understand why a SAMPLED piano wouldn't have this
- resonance recorded. Purely synthesized yes, but if the sampled
- sound didn't have these, it would be due to the recording
- technique wouldn't it?
-
- >3. Smart people will wait for true CD quality, (like DAT now, which
- >blows the doors off DCC in all areas but analog cassette compatibility
- >and text information)
- >
- DAT isn't exactly setting the stock market on fire. And if
- you've even listened to a cassette walkman, your illusions about
- mass market buyers holding out for quality would be rapidly
- shattered.
-
- I'd be very surprised if one of the two didn't slowly replace
- ordinary Cassettes for the walkman crowd...either sounds better.
-
- >BTW, Sony in a recent ad says CD's are for the high end and MD's are for
- >the rest. Come on. We were insulted with analog cassettes once, lets
- >not go half ass because of a technical limitation now! (Thats like HDTV
- >with a lossy compression so it looks like VHS again!)
- >
- Now now.
-
- Sony of course is an expert on predicting that a technically
- inferior format will replace a superior one...sadly.
-
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