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BroonsBane said:
Very very cool! Thanks for posting that link :thmbsp:
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No problem! Glad that some folks find it interesting.

My wife and kids are french speaking - that's how I was able to recognize the melody. It's creepy to think that the voice belongs to a woman who has probably been dead for over 100 years.
 
So as a record of sound printed on paper this recording is much closer to a CD than it is to Vinyl.

Edison carved a grove in a wax cylinder, a direct predecessor of vinyl record. Messieur Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinvill printed sound an paper, much closer relative to the printing of digital data onto a CD.

I guess the CD guys were here first after all. The vinyl guys will never live this down…:D
 
thisOne said:
So as a record of sound printed on paper this recording is much closer to a CD than it is to Vinyl.
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"Scott’s device had a barrel-shaped horn attached to a stylus, which etched sound waves onto sheets of paper blackened by smoke from an oil lamp."

That seems like analog to me.
 
Actually this isn't all that much different then how audio is recorded on to the side of movie film, at least with older movie films. Pretty amazing when you think about it that it was made in 1860.
 
Wow, that's amazing, especially considering it is optical media, sort of similar to a cd, but analog. Why can't they just make a new analog format on an optical disc?
 
hypertone said:
Wow, that's amazing, especially considering it is optical media, sort of similar to a cd, but analog. Why can't they just make a new analog format on an optical disc?
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The industry sure could use some excitement, like media with the dynamic range of vinyl and the SN ratio of digital. It would be nice to get the focus off lossy formats and concentrate on high fidelity.
 
rushfan said:
The industry sure could use some excitement, like media with the dynamic range of vinyl and the SN ratio of digital. It would be nice to get the focus off lossy formats and concentrate on high fidelity.
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Very cool! Thanks for posting the link!

Gohan
 
rushfan said:
The industry sure could use some excitement, like media with the dynamic range of vinyl and the SN ratio of digital. It would be nice to get the focus off lossy formats and concentrate on high fidelity.
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I am sorry to say, but CDs have a better dynamic range then vinyl. CDs are capable of a dynamic range of 92db while records can only achieve 60db. It is just that recording companies like to compress the living daylights out of CDs. If you find one that isn't compressed you will be amazed at the sound quality. :thmbsp:
 
poohsan said:
They used a technology developed several years ago in collaboration with the Library of Congress, in which high-resolution “maps” of grooved records are played on a computer using a digital stylus.

Pretty dang cool!
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I posted this on another thread, but if anyone wants to know more about the tech involved, here's an article that talks about the process, developed by a pair of researchers at Berkeley Lab (where I work), in their spare time: http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Phys-quarks-to-blues.html -Steve
 
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