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Re: MD v. DAT

Subject: Re: MD v. DAT
From: "Rich Peet" <>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 05:53:24 -0000
Sorry Vicki I had accidently saved it at 44.1 and 32bit.  It has now
been changed to 16 bit and is now half the size. Those that
experienced problems will not now.

Rich Peet

--- In  Vicki Powys <>
wrote:
> Rich,
>
> I downloaded this sound but all I got was a loud electronic noise
via a
> web-only player i.e. I couldn't save the file even if I'd wanted
to.  What's
> going on here?  I'd be interested to hear the recording if you can
make it
> all work!
>
> Vicki Powys
> Australia
>
>
>
>
> on 14/8/03 8:56 AM, Rich Peet at  wrote:
>
> > From the low end point of view.
> >
> > Having heard a sound example where a very slight difference could
be
> > heard in my good headphones I tried to repeat the failure.  The
> > weakness in atrac is suppose to be best heard in fast attack
sounds
> > that are broad in freq.
> >
> > I recorded a sound bite from my local critters that best meets
this,
> > the Northern Cricket Frog.  It was recorded with a laptop computer
> > and a good low noise mic. The signal was then sent digital out to
my
> > consumer walkman md and recorded back to the computer by analog.
Only
> > the gain on the md segment was changed 3 db to match.
>
> >
> > a 1.5 meg download at
> > http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/mdtest.wav
> >
> > Rich Peet
> >



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