On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:36:35 -0500, Carlos Moreno
wrote:

As I said, from the *practical* point of view -- i.e., someone
that knows little or nothing about electronics or digital signal
processing -- you can simply think of tape hiss as what happens
when you record a sound to a tape and play it back and hear a
background "ssssssss" (hiss). That phenomenon does occur in a
DAT. Sure, it occurs for very different reasons, as you pointed
out (in particular, the fact that digitizing through a sound
card and storing to hard disk would produce the exact same
effect).

So why muddy the water by allowing it to be called "tape hiss"?
Why not just "hiss"?