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Re: [ECS] More on Audio Data compression (was: [ECS] Help with Log States) Dan Carrington Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:02:57 -0800

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Hear Hear on the first part,  I fully agree with you!  A question
though.  Is AC3 a compression scheme?  I only know it as a fully
seperate 5 channel plus sub system.  I have never heard of it as a
compression scheme.  

Dan Carrington




Michael David wrote:
> 
> Hi Garnet!
> 
> As a recovering audio mixer (no matter how hard you try, you never really
> get it out of your blood...), I plead guilty to being an audio purest.  :)
> So, my first inclination is to shy away from a compression scheme that will
> yeild audible artifacts because they'll drive me nuts.  For the same reason,
> it has gotten to a point where we don't go out to movies anymore because all
> the theaters we have tried in our area have one problem or another with
> their playback chain.  And, for $7.50, I expect the theater to sound totally
> awesome.  As it is, my living room generally sounds better than many of the
> theaters in our area.  In addition, as an added benefit, I can hit pause,
> and hit the restroom when the beer takes it's toll. :)
> 
> Having said all that, there must be some form of compression out there in
> the 250 to 500Kb range that is fairly transparent.  I just haven't found it
> yet (AC3, maybe?).  And, ultimately, maybe the answer is to go with
> uncompressed .wav files.  With the cost of hard drives as they are now, it
> wouldn't be that awful.
> 
> Or, maybe we'll just stick with the changer and run it with that Slink-e
> software.  I don't remember who posted that link, but that pair looks great,
> and well worth the money.  In addition, their software now supports MP3
> files.  If you guys haven't checked it out, I encourage you to do so.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Michael David
> michael@michaeldavid.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   gbailey [mailto:gbailey@attcanada.net]
> Sent:   Monday, October 26, 1998 9:02 PM
> To:     ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
> Subject:        RE: [ECS] Help with Log States
> 
> You guys realize that almost every radio station in the country plays their
> music off a hard drive. They use a commercial compression setup, but it is
> pre mp3. The local rock station here uses 10GB hard drives. What you are
> doing is far higher fidelity than they can do !
> 
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