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Bob Cain
 
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Default Advantage of tape over MD?



Lord Hasenpfeffer wrote:


Actually, flint, what you've just described *is* frequency masking which
is only one of 2 different filtration methods employed by lossy
compression methods such as MP3, AAC, MiniDisc, etc..


Just a minor terminology quibble, Myke. Filtration is what
is done to sewage. I'm an old E.E. with a DSP upgrade and
have never heard the word applied to signals. "Filtering"
is what you want.


Bob
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