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Re: [ARSCLIST] CD-DA to .wav
Hello, Kevin,
There are two things to consider:
(1) Does 44.1/16 represent any quality loss from the original? Since
you say they are spoken word recordings, I would suggest that if
there is any, it is slight.
(2) Has your tape playback quality increased dramatically over ten
years (i.e., were these tapes played on a Wollensak and you now have a Studer)?
If you don't think you'd get any meaningful quality improvement by
investing in 500 hours of re-transfer (while other material then
waits), I would go the EAC route. Give the discs to a good clerical
person, train them in the use of EAC, save the log files and you
review them (note that errors can be caused at track transitions for
some reason w/o ultimately affecting the quality of transfer). I
would suspect that in 100 hours of clerical time and less than 500
minutes of your time it would be done.
Cheers,
Richard
At 09:22 AM 2007-04-27, Ganesh.Irelan@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Ten years ago, the organization I am with was reformatting
to 1/4" analog as preservation master and CD-DA for security backup
and access. Now, I have a question. We need to either recopy the
stuff already done to 1/4" while the originals are still
viable (about 500 hours of material). Or, we can extract to .wav
from the discs. Since the discs were done as security backups
their quality was checked with a Clover Systems analyzer which
means we have documentation demonstrating their superior
quality. Aside from their being 16 / 44.1k what does everyone
think of such a scenario? Obviously the reason we want to do this
is cost. I would use Exact Audio Copy to assure error-free
extractions. These are spoken word recordings.
Thank you.
Kevin Irelan
Richard L. Hess email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX
Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.