Re: [IRCA] Digitalizing DX cassettes

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- cafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> Not surprisingly, MP3 files deteriorate about as fast as
> WAV files (if they do at all...)
> 
> And I challenge anyone to record dx, any dx, at 16 to
> 24kbps (ok, maybe 64kbps...) and tell the difference
> between that and a cassette tape.
> 
> Recording DX as a WAV file is a huge waste of storage space.
> 
> Note:
> 
> WAV  	uncompressed  	1:1  	10 MB  	If the wave wav file was sampled
> at 16 bits/44.1kHz, you've got CD quality sound
> MP3 	160 kbps 	9:1 	1.5 MB 	Very low compression, superior sound
> quality
> MP3 	128 kbps 	11:1 	1 MB 	The standard "CD quality" bit rate
> MP3 	96 kbps 	15:1 	700K 	Considered "near CD quality"
> MP3 	64 kbps 	22:1 	400K 	About the same quality as an FM radio
> station
> 
> 64 kbps MP3 "As good as FM...."
> 
>

For the record, I record both my AM and FM DX at 64kbps, 16kHz stereo.
There are those who insist that stereo offers nothing and uses up more
space. Because I interchange between AM & FM, and since most FM is in
Stereo, I've found it's less trouble to do it all in stereo.



Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop


 
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