Alfafa wrote: >> There are a large number of SACDs that were mastered from ADAT tapes. >> There is nothing high res about them. > > That would be old recordings then as ADAT's has nearly disappeared from > studios. 10 years ago they were for a time very popular for a short > amount of time because they were cheap to buy and used cheap > medium(VHS) whwere the Tascam DA-88 used hi8 tapes which are more > expensive.
Old, what do you mean old? :-) SACDs are old. When there was interest in SACD, ADATs were in common use. As were RedBook PCM systems. My point was not that ADAT are currently popular, they are obsolete. But most music was recorded on analog tape, which has nothing in the high frequencies. Later, expensive studios stayed with 2" tape, and ADAT took over the modest studios, neither recorded anything over 20 hHz or so. The point is that there is not lots of music recorded high-wide. > Today most studios are using protools and many of them are capable of > recording 24bit/192kHz For sure, 24/88.2/96 has been affordable for six or more years. That doesn't mean there are large libraries of music that is high and wide, waiting for a tiny fraction of a percent of music customers to demand that it be let free. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
