Recording devices (off-topic?)

[Gary Fluke]

Don,

I'm just not hearing the distortion.  Are you?


Gary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <pianotuna at accesscomm.ca>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: Recording devices (off-topic?)


> 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.
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