Recording devices (off-topic?)

[Don]

Hi Gary,

Yes, and you can introduce lots of distortion--that increases as the sound
gets softer (the inverse of analog recording). Check out the Nyquist limit.

Have a look here:

http://cara.gsu.edu/courses/MI_313/digi2.htm

At 12:13 PM 12/3/2007 -0800, you wrote:
>David,
>
>Thanks for your thoughts.  I believe even with the very best equipment a 
>vinyl record dynamic range is somewhere around 50dB.  Of course, typical 
>digital dynamic range is around 100dB, so good that one doesn't need to 
>remember exactly what it is.
>
>What is really cool, is that at very little cost anyone of us can record 
>even a piano with fidelity that was impossible to obtain with extremely high 
>priced equipment just a few years ago.
>
>Gary
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat

mailto:pianotuna at yahoo.com	http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/

3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7
306-539-0716 or 1-888-29t-uner