What is better....tapes or cd's

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bigmaddaz
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Posted - 2004/05/28 : 13:51:18

i think tapes coz u can drop tapes on the floor and it wont do nething 2 them. drop a cd on the floor and u get a scratch on it and it skips. even though a cd has better quality sound.

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SEEKY
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Posted - 2004/05/28 : 15:22:19

CDs win by miles, skip to whatever track you want in secords not fast fowarding it for about 10mins and then accidently miss the tune you were looking for! Plus Better sound quality!!!!!!!

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sexy_Rhi_Rhi
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Posted - 2004/05/28 : 18:26:05

tapes i reckon:)theres more on em:)

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mark-ireland
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Posted - 2004/05/28 : 20:02:48

CDS win dont have to fast forward for ages to get to the last song just pick what ever number it is and tapes are poorer quality.

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5-hydroxytryptamine
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Posted - 2004/05/28 : 20:03:51

I can't believe what some of you are saying. Tapes are better because they're not digital? wtf? First of all, digital recordings are not inherently worse quality than analog, in fact in a lot of cases they're a lot better. Secondly, do you realise how raves are recorded? They go straight on to DAT (that's Digital Audio Tape). It's a digital recording at 16bits and 48kHz, which is slightly higher than CD (44.1kHz). So essentially you've got the equivalent of a CD that the tapes are mastered from.

Now we get technical - the frequency response of a digital recording is about half the sampling rate, so a CD will capture frequencies up to about 20kHz, which is well into the upper limits of human hearing. Analog tapes on the other hand only go up to about 12-15kHz, so the high treble and the harmonics of the other sounds are attenuated, which is what makes CDs sound clear/crisp/open etc and tapes, ermm... not.

CDs sound better. To "mrc": your garage CD was most probably mastered from a poor quality recording in the first place due to a crap sound rig. Generally though if a CD sounds worse than a tape then there's something wrong with your sound system.

CDs are also a lot cheaper to produce, they don't wear out (unless you scratch them, which is your fault), and you can make perfect backups whereas with tapes you lose quality on every copy.

Sorry to go off on one like this but this apparent hatred of CDs is my pet peeve with the scene atm.

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