Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 v7 ucbtopaz-1.8; site ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!ucbvax!ucbtopaz!newton2 From: newton2@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD's, delta-modulation, and all that Message-ID: <580@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 14:43:42 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.580 Posted: Fri Oct 19 14:43:42 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Oct-84 07:06:10 EDT References: <517@watdcsu.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Calif., Berkeley CA USA Lines: 8 So now we need *120 dB* dynamic range "to protect against incorrect level setting by the recording engineer"!!!! Land sakes, what's been protecting us during the dark night of the analog era? Did I hear someone say "limiters"? Let's get real, folks. Maybe its time to take up another hobby if the improvements offered by 16-bit digital are so, um, disquieting. I suggest amateur beam weapons building-- THERE's a field not likely to be pre-empted anytime soon by success...