On 25 Oct 2000, at 0:09, las wrote: > The dynamic range of a CD > is still not as great as some of the music recorded on it. > This is probably best found in classical music. I'll bet that a live > version of the 1812 Overture, if they had canons firing would have a > dynamic range that exceeds 100 dB. I'll point out here that while maybe normal CDs don't have a large enough dynamic range, Sony's "Super CD" is ridiculous. Even with "only" DVD Audio discs you can capture the dynamic range of a jet engine. > One last thing, will some other old fart in this list tell this old fart > why they changed the nomenclature for frequencies?? It used to be 20 to > 20K cps (cycles per second). That made sense. 1 hz = 1 cycle/second. But I assume you know that. -- Josh ...still agonizing over which portable recorder to buy.... ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]