WALTER
> > >What you are also saying is that a DAT recorded original transferred to
>> >CD is changed by the process. I would agree, everything we do changes
>> >the signal some. Even simple digital transfers are not 100% accurate.
> > >That's why there are error correction routines in the software.
DAN
> > Not so. Simple digital transfers (like CD or DAT into DAW, or
>> vice-versa) are normally perfect, that is, bit-for-bit identical
>> files are produced. When a DAT tape or CD is being played, it's
>> normal for error correction to reconstruct data that can't be read.
>> But that correction results in just that--correction of the read
>> errors, and the output of the player is the original data unless
>> gross errors bring the process up past the threshold of correction
>> into the region of error concealment.
WALTER
>You and my son, who's a programmer, can haggle over it. That came more
>or less straight from him. He says error correction does not do it
>perfect. It's a fairly minor change, if any, to my mind.
Ask him about the difference between error correction and error
concealment. I have recorded a file to DAT, read it back into my
workstation and verified that it was bit-perfect. I have cut a file
onto a CDR, read it back into the workstation, and verified that it
was bit-perfect. QED.
-Dan Dugan
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