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Re: 24 hourly recordings?

Subject: Re: 24 hourly recordings?
From: Lou Judson <>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 16:24:54 -0700
Yeah, don't mean to quibble, ...but the only thing that is "Cd quality"
is 16 bit uncompressed PCM, as you say here, WAV or AIFF or SDII.

The phrase "near-CD quality" was a marketing hype (fairly accurate,
though) in the early days of MP3 and it got corrupted to "CD quality"
but is not so. Mayhap I protest too much, but it matters to me at
least.

My preferred recording is 24 bit and that is the minimum for
professional recording, even if destined for CD release. But that is
another topic entirely... Whatever, as you say!

Lou

Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Sep 5, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Charles Bragg wrote:

> At 08:15 AM 9/5/2005, Lou Judson wrote:
>
>> Two opinions:
>>
>> Compressed audio is NEVER "CD qulity" - that is a marketing hype
>> nominalization to me. It is compressed, not CD!
>
>         Sometimes this is a distinction without a difference, but
> whatever. Total Recorder allows uncompressed WAV file recording too.


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