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Re: [ARSCLIST] DAT Archival Housing
At 09:43 AM 2007-02-19, Karl Miller wrote:
Reading the note below...
I have several 32kHz DATs which sound distorted. They will not
play on at all on my Panasonic machine, but do play (with
distortion at peaks) on my Tascam. Is it possible that some other
machine might play them without distortion?
Karl, were these recorded on a consumer Sony machine? Their 32ks/s
format was incompatible with other 32 kb/s formats. Of course, the
audio just might be distorted. People used to running VU meters into
the red would do that sometimes on digital machines as well. In fact,
I think early CBC digital standards didn't leave enough headroom.
I've forgotten the specifics, but that was one example of how things
might get messed up.
I don't think the Sony LP format would play as 32 bit at all, but
that might explain it. Try playing it on a Sony LP machine. I have
two (a DTC670 and a D8 walkman) that play that format. I think it
would probably be best to go through D-A and then back through A-D
rather than trying to stay all digital with that one, but I'd try all
digital first.
Cheers,
Richard
Richard L. Hess email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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