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Originally posted by nostatic
with today's recording technology, when you go to CD you are throwing out data to get to red book. I routinely record at higher sample rates and have to downsample to get to 44.1 16 bit. While it may not be "compression", you are losing data/signal. To me it is worse when you go from analog to CD, as you're throwing away a lot of "data" although it perhaps isn't obvious.
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Thanks, I see what you're saying, and I was thinking about the compression aspect that Wayne posted about. Although I don't record live shows much anymore, I (and almost everyone) would record at a sampling rate of 44.1khz/16 bit since we were going to master to cd. This was using DATs (which only went to 48khz anyways), so it was a neglible difference. And I wholeheartedly agree with you...there is an audible difference when something is say 96khz/24 bit...and vinyl (analog) has them all beat
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