At 17:59 01-05-13, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
On 2013-05-01, David Pickett wrote:
You say that, but I have recently been transferring old cassettes to
hard drive and, given that they have a limited bandwidth of about
15kHz, the noise is not intrusive and I have been amazed at the
quality -- a quality that mp3 files do not approach.
I have a bunch of cassettes myself, which isn't fully digitized yet.
Since I took some pain to make them them the premium hard chrome
oxide kind, and tried to care about them over the years, no, they
aren't bad at all. So no, there's nothing wrong with well executed
analog technology.
What amazed me about the quality of the sound on these old cassettes
and analog tapes is that the quality has been preserved, even though
I took no particular pains about storage: no extra noise or print
through. My older analog open reel tapes were stored since 1975 in
roofs that cooked them in the summer and in garages that pretty well
froze them in winters. Some of the cardboard boxes had decayed, but
the tapes (in plastic inner bags) were intact. The only exception to
this are those that were recorded on Ampex/3M/Capital stock, most of
which suffer from the deterioration of the binder and have had to be
"cooked" before I could play them at all. But having done that, they
mostly played fine. Some of the data on my CDRs and DATs on the
other hand, has disappeared completely!
End of my OT contribution! Back to the future...
David
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