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> * Simon Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 02 May 2000
> | When CD's were first introduced, they were slated as being too "clinical" to
> | ears familiar to scratchy ol' vinyl. I think this is the same phenomenon
> | revisited. Our ears "like" the right kind of distortion - go figure.
>
> Probably apocryphal, but in one of Sony's test runs, at a higher sampling
> rate than 44.1kHz, you could hear the pages being turned by the orchestra.
> The test audience found that distracting, so Sony rolled back the sampling
> frequency.
Where did you get this one from??????
Cheers,
Ralph -> ISBN number and page please!
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