On 29/04/14 18:05, Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Tape is awful. Get over it. Just because with a huge amount of calibration
and understanding by some really good sound engineers and design engineers
it was good ENOUGH doesn't make it great. Just. Barely. Good. ENOUGH.

I wish people here didn't assume that tape means analogue. There were (even
if they don't exist now) quite a few digital tape systems.

indeed. You get over *nearly* all the problems if you go digital.

After all hard disks are 'tape done different' its all spinning or
moving rust of one sort or another.

The real breakthrough is in NAND memory like SSD and flash..


But the point remains spinning rust is awful, and analogue spinning rust
is the worst off all.

digital technology allows compensation for the worst analogue
variabilities by hiding it below the bit level.



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