[Mike Rivers]

Daniel Fuchs wrote:

"Did you know that when an ADat or D88 records on a new track
it plays the bit stream off the tape , mixes in the new track, and
records
it again. Now that's worth thinking about"

I don't think that's true with the ADAT, but since the DA88 treats
tracks as pairs (or a stereo track, if you prefer), if you have Track 3
recorded and then record Track 4, when you recorded Track 3, you
actually recorded Tracks 3 and 4 - whatever audio you sent to Track 3
and silence on Track 4. Then when you recorded Track 4, Track 3's audio
was re-recorded together with the new audio for Track 4.

Alesis boosters used this as a bit of mud slinging (remember, the ADAT
came out first but most thought the DA-88 sounded better and had some
other advantages) saying that every time you recorded a new track you
risked losing a previously recorded track if something failed. In
reality, it never happened. You could pull the power plug when
recording a new track and all the previous tracks were intact. Very
clever, those Japanese.

What this has to do with sample rate, I dunno. I didn't read the SAE
reference.