MOTM

Not really on topic, but maybe amusing:

In Germany we had a big advertising for BASF compact cassettes
in the last days before Minidisc, and finally CDRs, took over.
With much ado, their message was
"very close to the CD - 99.9% noise-free !!"
Sounds impressive, but if you assume they were right,
and do the maths, this means just 60dB SNR.

Not that the musical instruments business would be better:
The Moog/Bode Frequency shifter was advertised as having
less than 0.1% of noise. Once again, that's just 60dB.
(Not bad for a FS, btw.)

Oh and one last thing: I prefer a *good* (new, heavy-vinyl)
LP to a CD any time. But if I'd talk about "LP quality", no one
would know what I mean.

JH.


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Von: The Old Crow <oldcrow@...>
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2003 01:09
Betreff: Re: [motm] Re: MOTM format ARP 2600 filter?


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>   I just think Paul wanted to avoid saying something like 96dB dynamic
> range, which is far less marketable to the same audience of prospective
> buyers.  (eg, the ones that go, "duuuh whats a dB?" ;)
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> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Adam Schabtach wrote:
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> > I recognize that "CD quality" has become a marketing term which carries
> > certain connotations, but as a technical description it doesn't mean a
> > whole lot to me when applied to a synthesizer module.
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