Klarinet Archive - Posting 000054.txt from 2002/01

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Minidisc
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:04:58 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Hausmann [mailto:bhausmann1@-----.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 5:38 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Minidisc
>
>
> At 12:49 PM 1/2/2002 -0800, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
> >DAT is better than CD.
>
> Unless it can be set to record at a sampling rate higher than a
> CD's, then
> the best DAT can possibly do is be EQUAL to CD.

Consumer DAT tape drives sample at 48Khz unless being used to copy a CD, and
some DATs use 20-bit samples, an improvement over the 16-bit samples used
for CD.

Mark C.

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