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Re: [ARSCLIST] Cassette obsolescence - digitizing standards
These suggestions are all good and fine. However, whoever is not financed
on the scale of a national library, and departs from 44.1 16 bit, expecting
to store on a CD must consider the long-term consequences of a non-standard
or only temporarily standard storage medium with its required investment in
harware of dubious future repairability, processing (changes in the
cataloging system) and the gamble that whatever technological substitute
choice is made will be decodable say, twenty five years hence.
How many video formats for audio, digital or analog, are still accessible by
institutions with holdings in those formats? Aren't we encouraging
archivists to create media that can only serve to guarantee future
generations of sound restorers a career? Oh, when will we ever learn.
Steve Smolian
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From: "Lou Judson" <loujudson@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Cassette obsolescence - digitizing standards
What about using 24 bit at 44.1 so that any noise reduction or
processing done later is higher definition?
Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Feb 20, 2006, at 8:21 AM, Richard L. Hess wrote:
It's easy to say 96/24 for everything, but if you can put 3x the amount of
stuff in the same bucket at 44.1/16 and you haven't lost anything, why
wouldn't you do that?
It's a balancing act. The cassette is the weakest link in the chain.
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