DeVerm;338770 Wrote: > You're missing something here: transcoding is something you don't -need- > with analog, it's just to deal with nasty digital stuff like > sample-rates.
What I meant was that one could store the masters in (say) 24/96, and transcode them to redbook, or to mp3 for a portable device, or to any other format very easily. It's just much, much easier to manipulate digital information (because computers are digital). It's also much safer and easier to store. > There are no samples in analog, you get it all not just "some" samples > ;-) No - that's a myth. It's just not true. You're arguing with Claude Shannon here, not me... According to Shannon-Harley, the information capacity of an -analogue- channel, -in bits/second-, is C = B log_2 (1 + S/N), B the bandwidth in Hertz, S/N the signal/noise (assuming Gaussian noise). That means that for any given analogue medium, there is a minimum number of bits/s a digital stream would need in order to carry *-all-* the information in that analogue medium. If the digital stream had a larger C, it could carry -more- data. > Same for storage: media is the culprit, not the analog techniques. I don't agree. Digital formats are inherently much easier to store, manipulate, and copy. > Noise in an analog channel doesn't limit it's capacity but it will mask > part of it's content. Not so. See above. > Yes, bandwidth limit obviously limits it's content. Do you know that the > studio-recorders they used -before- CD's were invented went all the way > up to 100 kHz? That's 5x the 16/44 you listen to now! But 16/44 is rarely if ever used in the studio, at least as far as I know. > Yes, I have the Caol... hard to find isn't it? I even have the 21 yr > Springbank.... I tried the 12 yr Bowmore (I think it was 12 yr but > might've been 15 yr) and it was nothing compared to the 18 yr old. So > if you never had that: get it! My wife's favorite is the 15 yr Glenn > Farclas. > I'll try the 18-year Bowmore - I don't think I've ever had it. Thanks! -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51021 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
