30 Nov
1998
30 Nov
'98
11:06 a.m.
> Worse still if you're using an audio CD. The
CD player will be
filtering
according to
what's best for the human ear, not what's best for the
computer.
Does this matter? Most tape recorders used back in the day were also
optimized for use with the human ear, so I would imagine the computers
that utilized them as storage were designed with that in mind. Kick me I am wrong but it just seems logical to me that a CD
today would work
just
as well (if not better) than a cassette recorder of
yesteryear. Were the
specialized "data" recorders any different from a standard cassette
player?
Possibly. But I distinctly recall that when we recorded tapes for sale
using the tape deck from my Sanyo stereo (not on a PET BTW - this was a BBC
micro) we found that Dolby noise reduction had to be disabled for it to
work...
Philip