Re: [ARSCLIST] current role of soundcards

["Scott D. Smith" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As always, Ken has done a very thoughtful job in authoring this report.

Now all we need is to commission someone to do the testing per his 
guidlelines!

Scott D. Smith
Chicago Audio Works, Inc.

Sam Brylawski wrote:

> I'm pleased that this paper has proven useful to people. As I said, it
> was published yesterday to coincide with the National Recording
> Preservation Board which met yesterday at the Library of Congress. All
> I've done is get that link up fast. For the record, the roundtable for
> which Ken's paper was commissioned was organized by Peter Alyea and
> Larry Appelbaum of LC's Recording Laboratory, and Gene DeAnna, head of
> the Recorded Sound Section.
>
> More papers from the roundtable held last March will be published soon.
>
> Sam
>
> On 11/3/06, Marie O'Connell <marie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > That really is a great paper!  Thanks for sharing that Sam.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Marie
> >
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> > [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sam Brylawski
> > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:38 PM
> > To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] current role of soundcards
> >
> > An informal, unofficial notice:
> >
> > Earlier this year, the National Recording Preservation Board
> > commissioned a set of white papers relating to digital-related topics
> > in sound preservation. The very first of these papers to be
> > "published" was placed on the web this very morning. It is
> > "Measurement and Evaluation of Analog-to-Digital Converters Used in
> > the Long-Term Preservation of Audio Recordings" by Ken Pohlmann.
> >
> > A formal announcement of this publication will come from LC in the
> > next few days but given today's thread, why wait? It's a wonderful
> > work.
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > http://www.clir.org/activities/details/AD-Converters-Pohlmann.pdf