From artist Sent Wed, Apr 22nd 1998, 18:50
From artist Sent Wed, Apr 22nd 1998, 18:50
> > a cd, which is (given good mastering) an exact digital copy [of a DAT] > There you said it "DIGITAL". All cut up into millions of little > bits and jammed back together, not one smooth sound curve. > It samples at 44 thousand.1 times per second.... well this isn't exactly accurate but i know what you mean. by the way you misunderstood me - i was making the point on the basis that the master tape is on DAT (which almost all recordings are made onto). so there is no point telling anyone that vinyl sounds better than cd for the vast majority of recordings because the cd is (or should be) an identical copy of the DAT master, down to the last bit. and of course i take sounding 'better' to mean sounding as close to the original as possible. but i still love vinyl.. > If you go above clip in digital you get a terrible distortion this is not always the case, in moderate clipping the waves are simply squared off, not bounced from 32768 to -32768 <waves>