The hit Christmas album of last year, "Voices of Winter" by Herdman Hills
and Mangsen was recorded on DA88 and DAT at different venues. Tish
Hinojosa's "Aquella Noche" is a live-to-DAT album, I believe.
Anyway, the most exciting advancement currently is the lower-priced 20Bit 8
track ADATs from Alesis. These are the first affordable recorders to break
the 16 bit limit.
As I said in a previous post, 16 bit to my ears is equal to 15 i.p.s. 2
track with Dolby A with none of the annoyance. Today in dollars (not real,
but ACTUAL dollars) a DAT recorder costs less than a __channel__ of Dolby A
did 20-odd years ago! What is that in REAL dollars??? Wow!
Anyway, DAT is not a consumer format. Cassettes can sound as good as
necessary for 90% of the people. CD's are CONVENIENT for playback. DAT is
convenient for recording.
Yes, I'm a reluctant DAT fan!
Cheers,
Richard
Richard L. Hess rlhess@mindspring.com
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