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Don't forget how they killed DAT before it even had a chance to get going. Consumers were stuck with analog casette mixtapes for another decade or more unnecess
by hn8305823 4y ago
Don't forget how they killed DAT before it even had a chance to get going. Consumers were stuck with analog casette mixtapes for another decade or more unnecessarily.
The worst part is what it did to indie/amateur musicians. The only models allowed to record at 44.1 were "professional" that cost a lot more than the very few consumer models that were only allowed to do 32k and 48k.
- brokenmachine 3y agoWouldn't 48k be better quality than 44.1? Why not use 48k?
- hn8305823 3y agoIf the end user is going to play it at 48k (trivial today) then it is absolutely better. Back in the 1990's independent/aspiring musicians needed to make CD's to send out to labels/radio stations/sell to fans. CD Audio is fixed at 44.1KHz. Transcoding 48k to 44.1 generates undesirable artifacts, especially back then when you likely had to convert to analog first.
- brokenmachine 3y agoMakes sense, I can definitely see why you'd want to skip a DAC/ADC step. For some reason I was thinking about it like nowadays when you just do the samplerate conversion ITB with hardly any degradation.