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From: "Arny Krueger"
Date: 11/2/2004 6:19 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"WVK" wrote in message
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Here's an interesting experiment happening right now:
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/sh...t=42196&page=1

Just another pathetic example of how the author doesn't know squat about
setting up a fair experiment involving analog and digital.

It's not news to anybody in the know, that analog tape has audible
colorations and noise. If you like noise with your music, its the way to go.

But for the record, in a time-synched ABX test I can score 16/16 with the
first song. The low level passage at the beginning is the easiest part to
score on.

The second sample has less audible hiss. Measurements show that it has a
couple dB less noise. Unless someone was playing games, it's the digital
one. Ironically, there is a trace of what appears to be dither shaping in
both samples.

I think I trimmed the two samples pretty well, but there appears to be a 16
millisecond discrepancy, probably due to tape slippage on the analog side.
The analog sample seems to be about 0.1 dB louder, overall.

The second one was the analog.