<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6332"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6336">Hi Aaron,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6332"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6332" dir="ltr">Are your preferences based on degradation of stated media and/or accurate reproduction of the original waveform? </div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6333"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6281"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6335"><font size="2" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6334">Sincerely, <br> </font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6284"><font size="2" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6331">Chris Juried <br>Audio Engineering Society (AES) <var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var>Member <br>InfoComm-Recognized AV Technologist</font><span class="postbody" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6283"><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.juriedengineering.com/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6330">http://www.JuriedEngineering.com</a> (Juried Engineering, LLC.)<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.tubeequipment.com/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6329">http://www.TubeEquipment.com</a> (Tube Equipment Corporation)<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.historyofrecording.com/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6282">http://www.HistoryOfRecording.com</a> (History of Recording)<br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6280"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6279"><font size="2" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453893068688_6317"><br>This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. 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Analog and digital transmission and storage formats have different strengths and weaknesses. Analog formats tend to degrade gracefully; digital formats have a sharp degradation curve, in which they’re perfect until they’re garbage (as I’ve learned going through archiving some old DAT tapes). Digital waveforms are converted to “analog” for transmission — the cable your internet service uses doesn’t know anything about “bits,” but the circuits encoding and decoding those bits do. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">I’ll take a “digital waveform” off of high-rate AAC file or a CD over an analog waveform off my old consumer cassette tapes.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- Aaron<div class="yqt9727072914" id="yqtfd75907"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Synth-diy mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl" href="mailto:Synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl">Synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy" target="_blank">http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>