two digitallish questions.

[Dave Krooshof]

>It's amazing how they've squashed every last bit out of recent CD's. The
>flipside is that some "old" CD's were mastered at ridiculously inconsistent
>and low levels as well. The all-timer in my collection must be using about
>13 bits at the most.
>
>>There was an article about monitoring and mastering loudness by Bob Katz
>>printed in the AES journal last fall, addressing the troubles that a lack of
>>standards has led to.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

Though some standards date back 2000 years, like the trackwidth of trains,
which is choosen to the Roman standard! (familiar with this?)

I guess it's 16/44.1 for the rest of this millenium.
and 7 bits for email.



>SPDIF isn't a standard feature on the Mac. It would have to be a
>third-party card.
True!
Both are digidesign:
- AMIII
- 882/project


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