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Re: [ARSCLIST] Audio History In a Nutshell?
Obviously,Don,you have not heard some of the 78 to mp3 conversions that the people from the Google classical recordings group have made.There is a world of difference between these,and the typical unlistenable YouTube stuff of just pointing a camera at the record player,which describes what you have in mind.Don't forget USB turntables/phonographs are only in their first generation.They will only improve.
Roger
Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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