From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Apr 25 22:13:44 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9504FB19F1 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:13:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from sonic309-25.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (sonic309-25.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [77.238.179.83]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BE077735B for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:13:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) X-YMail-OSG: FcyIXOEVM1nTWKyhMao3BfcazLICidcZVW6TU2U.85BlL4Vky96gC_CxLjgwAc8 MTkty8sspsxVT.YXPLIWK2NlfysDndvAG6YgAJ2FjljHUJ0u1bqwQWsT8ujsgBcw_bJ1IcbfmoMK _J9FqVc2AzJcj2mXevelvOGro_HnzSmpskxy8a2.0Rzbhrg5A2djWJ1qQOC6mxWZbCuCcquOHu8p EtfrOO5ny6eJgoIZjsIT3hNDPuQkesAx4imr2LFFxicoMSBUV.yeS46UQIt1TV2w.5S_7Lv0I9NR N2TzpF5dgryqph3Dd2YOCCQR2NDqSkJT1xJ4CPXiWk9rDg9WbhHQvVxVKvVKS7KVGMiCu1Wuwml3 bVG5MMz8rilQ5ddTvKfJEtXoCiIw7ByGkT838pVLPFpn.mamM3JWfigKSr87zmX1G1.cJ8ik.5BX ax4RklkIkjnqeHoalOiudEsr2lIxV.3rqwd6Jda0JExmcCBrm4GXT..qNKMsXkbASGo2oS00yr3q yD9Zst.j8ehElXEugZrtPsrBAv0bSH.oQhT2ZFrnrYxhUME9DxkkitivrYyigq6zkqhoJWQTGG0b syQrvA.7Gt9lc6Cp1zLZF0k1.Oa48i8r9n_0GvA42tQ4CMvJZ4u3RWVM.1AjWLGuk7CxJCAmeH7H Z Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic309.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with HTTP; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:13:41 +0000 Received: from x4e32150c.dyn.telefonica.de (EHLO archlinux) ([78.50.21.12]) by smtp432.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (Oath Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID e6e0a4e979251715d2eb36d9406e84ae for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:03:32 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:03:32 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: audiophile sound on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20180426000332.368008d7@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20180425233158.6aa4ddd0@archlinux> References: <20180423224242.7299f430@WorkMachine> <20180424113308.52f35f93@WorkMachine> <20180424200924.12c648bf@archlinux> <20180424235410.5e175bc6@gumby.homeunix.com> <20180425185330.70fb9b1e.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> <20180425121249.3de329616ad9c07822e5e572@sohara.org> <20180425233158.6aa4ddd0@archlinux> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0git136 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:13:44 -0000 OTOH storage of very good sounding professional analog tapes has got pitfalls. Assumed professional analog recordings should sound better than professional digital recordings, perhaps they don't, it's just an arbitrary assumption, then we shouldn't underrate the issue of maintaining the archiving. An analog copy does reduce the quality of the original recording, there is nothing such as a perfect analog copy. A digital copy doesn't reduce the quality, at least not a perfect digital copy and perfect digital copies are possible. When coping from one consumer DAT to another consumer DAT via S/PDIF I experienced artefacts, but something like this shouldn't happen, if we copy a file from one HDD to another ;).