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Here's the rub -- unless someone made a highly calibrated playback into a verifiably flat-response
digital chain, the digi-file would be useless. And it would need to be at least CD resolution WAV to
hold the curve in the high frequencies.
No such a digital beast exists as far as I know. The comparable CD to the RCA record was the CBS
Labs test CD back in the early 1990's. I'm not sure if a successor gained favor later on.
If you have a good CD transport, try transferring the CBS test CD to your DAW via SPDIF or AES
digital and see how your DAW does on playback. You may be surprised.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] RIAA EQ software
Does anyone know if this "RCA test record" is available as a digital file over
the Internet?