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Subject: 5. Re: was: What is a good nature sound recording?
From: "Klas Strandberg" klasstrandberg
Date: Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:44 pm ((PST))
Robin, one thing that I miss a lot, are block diagrams describing
recorders. It would, for example, improve my understanding where, in
the chain, that self noise is produced.
Dan, as a Nagra service man, can you get such diagrams over Nagra
recorders, if you want to? Even more detailed?

Klas

At 23:14 2012-12-18, you wrote:
>There have always been those who would share and those who would
>hoard. Technology has only inflected this basic truth.
>
>Certainly it is a lot easier to gain knowledge now than a few
>decades ago. Then, even finding out about a new product required
>subscribing to specialist magazines. One read adverts and made
>expensive long-distance phone calls, spent an eternity waiting on
>hold, and months waiting for demo units to ship, arrive, and
>potentially get shipped back. Things were different for those in the
>world's largest cities, where specialist stores existed. But other
>places (say, Ireland) were even worse than average, cut off almost
>entirely from global knowledge.
>
>Nowadays one taps a screen and gets instant info. On lists/fora like
>this one, we can get advice from the horse's mouth. The down-side is
>that, more than ever, most people expect instant gratification and
>are less likely to put in the long hard graft necessary to find out
>for themselves. It is also true that misinformation can proliferate.
>
>But I am not pessimistic. There are good people out there who still
>don't mind learning. Perhaps there are more than ever. But they do
>tend to get lost in the tides of complacency.
>
>The tides are bigger now, and reach higher shores.
>
>-- Robin Parmar
>
>
>
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