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Re: [ARSCLIST] Audio History In a Nutshell?
On 07/12/07, Aaron Levinson wrote:
> Of course, the mp3 will by definition not sound as its good bigger
> cousin either and will naturally be a bandwith limited version of the
> original. But obviously one could argue that considering the known
> frequency response of the average 78 the resultant sonic degradation
> or losses from the compression scheme will not be as severe as they
> might've been coming from a higher fidelity source.
>
78s are particularly unsuited for conversion to MP3, because of the high
noise level. The same applies to the conversion of grainy photos to
JPGs.
Digital recordings, with almost no noise, are the best starting point
for lossy compression.
Regards
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Don Cox
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