Re: MD v. DAT

["Rich Peet" <>]

As I am one who speaks only from experience and not from any sound
education I am more prone to going out of bounds.

That said:
I never post in 8 bit because of the increased noise.  The concept of
having the idea make sense is still flying by me. When I convert a 16
bit file to 8 bit the noise doesn't go down anywhere that I see.  All
I hear is a degraded more noisy file.  What am I missing?

By the way, you wont likely even be able to tell what I recorded in
atrac when converted to 8 bit.  Did you find any defect in my atrac
re-recorded frog I posted on this thread?

Rich Peet


You should
> also note, that some of the recordings are of course of a bad
> quality. But this results from bad recordings conditions. In order
> to minimize the file sizes, I reduced the bit-depth down to 8 bit
in
> some cases. This is appropriate, because it sometimes does not make
> much sense to retain the high noise floors of the original 16 bit
> recordings. Even those 8-bit 'junk' files do not show any artifacts
> that are comparable to ATRAC artifacts. The only 'artifact' you can
> find is a relatively high overall (quantization) noise. But that
> noise does not change throughout a recording as it would be the
case
> in ATRAC. There will be no artifacts within the remaining 8-bit
> dynamic range.
>




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