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Re: Only a question

Subject: Re: Only a question
From: Charles Bragg <>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:23:15 -0700
At 03:52 PM 7/20/2004 -0400, Walter Knapp wrote:

>From: Charles Bragg <>
>
>> If we accept that ATRAC does not deliver a perfect copy of a natural sou=
nd, and I do, what does that mean?
>
>To make it correct:
>
>"If we accept that sound recording with any recorder does not deliver a
>perfect copy of a natural sound..."
>
>That's what I know to be absolutely true. I'm certain most of the
>experienced recordists here know that. Let's not get into thinking ATRAC
>is unique in this. It is misleading the way you say it.

        I agree that *no* sound reproduction system will deliver a perfect =
copy. I'll go even further - there is no such thing as a perfect copy of an=
ything, but the discussion was specifically about ATRAC's imperfections.

>Now go on with what it means.

        OK. And thanks for the myth-busting post you put up about the Corne=
ll test. That is now in my permanent files.

        -- Chuck


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Chuck Bragg, Pacific Palisades, CA
Membership Chair
Newsletter Editor
Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society
www.smbas.org
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