Without noise reduction best you will ever get out of tape is about 90db, with 80db more realistic. I will give you 90 for interests sake. Bandwidth at full SNR is likely about 20KHz, but I will give you 30KHz. Can't use noise reduction or any other emphasis-de-emphasis for this calc.
Bits in stereo max about 1.25 megabits/second equivalent data.
I do agree, there appear to be two races going on. One of us though is moving forward, and one just appears to be going in circles. This little diddy pretty much illustrates that:
At some point perhaps the links will be made that all audio is stored as simple 2 dimensional signals, time and value, whether done in the analog domain or digital domain, and that that eventually gets out to the speakers, and then your ear perceives a complex set of frequencies and intermixed timings as something described as timbre (but is still just a set of frequencies and timing), and hence how accurately it is possible to recreate the original "timbre" of the instrument comes down to how accurately one can recreate those frequencies and timings. One can reproduce them very accurately. One cannot. One can do everything the other one can do. The other cannot. This has nothing to do with what you like better, it is just a simple factual discussion. Want to hear exactly what the microphone picked up, use digital. Want to hear a euphonic presentation that you (and others) may or may not prefer? Use analog. Want the option? Use digital and explore the plug-ins available to add colorations and distortions and noise.
Some people want the world to be full of magic. Others simple roll up their sleeves and get things done.
Bits in stereo max about 1.25 megabits/second equivalent data.
I do agree, there appear to be two races going on. One of us though is moving forward, and one just appears to be going in circles. This little diddy pretty much illustrates that:
Seven: Nyquist theorem is about coding and decoding signals and also the implicit limitations and not only the power to do so.... This theorem has nothing to do directly with TIMBRE, which is the cornerstone of musical perception but more than that the cornerstone for evaluation of audio system in their acoustical controlled or uncontrolled embeddings...
At some point perhaps the links will be made that all audio is stored as simple 2 dimensional signals, time and value, whether done in the analog domain or digital domain, and that that eventually gets out to the speakers, and then your ear perceives a complex set of frequencies and intermixed timings as something described as timbre (but is still just a set of frequencies and timing), and hence how accurately it is possible to recreate the original "timbre" of the instrument comes down to how accurately one can recreate those frequencies and timings. One can reproduce them very accurately. One cannot. One can do everything the other one can do. The other cannot. This has nothing to do with what you like better, it is just a simple factual discussion. Want to hear exactly what the microphone picked up, use digital. Want to hear a euphonic presentation that you (and others) may or may not prefer? Use analog. Want the option? Use digital and explore the plug-ins available to add colorations and distortions and noise.
Some people want the world to be full of magic. Others simple roll up their sleeves and get things done.