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Technology Stocks : Aahh...iNEXTV (AXC) The NEXT Thing!
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To: HPilot who started this subject2/14/2001 2:59:24 AM
From: Hal Campbell   of 4169
 
Hey an actual discussion on SI. Great to see again.

My two cents worth.

Linn Sondek does make great tables.

Bits ain't just bits ....but in the early days of digital many thought they were so they passed around tenth generation and beyond " masters" to pressing plants and many CDs came out sounding mighty poor. And analogue is the wave.....digital the approximation of the wave, and so you could hear that something unpleasant was added and something vital was missing.Up to now digital has not been honest at all.

But the new Sony SACD format out analogues analogue, to my ears anyway. Has that "you are there analogue air" and ease, coupled with the speed precision and ultra low noise of digital. Don't know if it will ever get popular - to do SACD correctly I have heard the filters have to be mighty expensive....In any case I believe digital will eventually far surpass the best analogue ever had to offer.

But the AXC point here. Early digital sound could not survive multiple dupes without noticeable ill effects.
I was always convinced AXC could have made an amazing sound recorder because the DCT incorporated the first format to use truly "lossless" compression in video ( tougher to do than audio).I have read, judged by independent critics, that you could make 100 generations of dubs with NO measurable or visible degradation with the DCT. Almost certainly still the finest video recorder ever made. If they had transferred that tech to audio, what a sound it might have been.
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