Recent Finds & Thoughts

From: Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com <(Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com)>
Date: Mon Nov 30 11:06:11 1998

>> Worse still if you're using an audio CD. The CD player will be
filtering
>> according to what's best for the human ear, not what's best for the
>> computer.
>
> Does this matter? Most tape recorders used back in the day were also
> optimized for use with the human ear, so I would imagine the computers
> that utilized them as storage were designed with that in mind. Kick me
if
> I am wrong but it just seems logical to me that a CD today would work
just
> as well (if not better) than a cassette recorder of yesteryear. Were the
> specialized "data" recorders any different from a standard cassette
> player?
Possibly. But I distinctly recall that when we recorded tapes for sale
using the tape deck from my Sanyo stereo (not on a PET BTW - this was a BBC
micro) we found that Dolby noise reduction had to be disabled for it to
work...


Philip
Received on Mon Nov 30 1998 - 11:06:11 GMT