Re: ATRAC don't get no respect

[Dan Dugan <>]

Walt, you wrote,

>As I've noted it's a error to think ATRAC even keeps 20% of the original
>data. The more I dug into it, the more it became clear that it should
>rather be thought of as synthesizing a whole new set of data, and
>storing instruction on how to do this. Yes, a approximation, but so is
>anything that comes out of a A/D - D/A cycle.

Since ATRAC has higher fidelity than, say, pre-Dolby analog master 
tape recording (compare to 15 ips 2-track: better s/n, flatter 
frequency response, lower distortion, better group delay), one could 
ask "what percentage of the data does tape recording throw away?"

-Dan


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