loaded with CoolEdit 2000 which has, among other neat features, the
ability
to generate a 1000 Hz square wave and save it as a WAV file. Imagine
this
file is then recorded (again via digital SPDIF) by the MD and then
played
back from the MD into the PC again.
TO FIND:
Should the send and the
Besides which, if you're using a SBLive, it does a sample rate
conversion on EVERY SIGNAL to 48 kHz (even if the digital signal is
already at 48 kHz) to be put through its DSP, and if you're recording a
44.1 kHz signal, it does a sample rate conversion back to 44.1, so you
won't get an exact
Here is some food for thought.
Original Message
Subject: Digital Recording Experiment (Sorry, No Direct Mando Content)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:57:54 -0400
From: David Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Consider this experiment:
GIVEN:
A (home) minidisk deck has a digital in and out,
That looks like ATRAC Loss to me
Try that with a dat
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Behalf Of J. Coon
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 3:31 PM
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Subject: MD: [Fwd: Digital Recording Experiment (Sorry, No Direct Mando
Content
TO FIND:
Should the send and the return .WAV files be identical, since the
process is digital thoughout? If not, why not?
Of course not.
MiniDisc employs compression by perceptual encoding - that is:
1- the stuff you record on the MiniDisc is compressed and
2- the bits that are 'lost'
* J. Coon [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 26 Jun 2001
| To stimulate your thinking, please examine the actual results captured as
| screen grabs from directly out of CoolEdit:
Sorry, Charlie. Humans don't want images that look good, they want music
that sounds good. The ugliest picture of a
