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  2. Comparison of analog and digital recording - Wikipedia

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    Digital and analog differ in both the methods of transfer and storage, as well as the behavior exhibited by the systems due to these methods. The dynamic range capability of digital audio systems far exceeds that of analog audio systems. Consumer analog cassette tapes have a dynamic range of between 50 and 75 dB.

  3. Comparison of recording media - Wikipedia

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    Digital Up to 13 hours on a standard 80-minute MiniDisc. Up to 45 hours on a 1 GB Hi-MD (MiniDisc) Digital audio player: Digital Roughly 186 hours of playback per 10 GiB, assuming an average bitrate of 128 kbit/s. Roughly 372 hours with 64 kbit/s and roughly 74 hours with 320 kbit/s. DVD: Digital

  4. SPARS code - Wikipedia

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    AAD is the SPARS code (highlighted in red) on Madonna's 1990 album, The Immaculate Collection. The SPARS code is a three-position alphabetic classification system developed in the early 1980s by the Society of Professional Audio Recording Services (SPARS) for commercial compact disc releases to denote aspects of the sound recording and reproduction process, distinguishing between the use of ...

  5. Audio system measurements - Wikipedia

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    So for a 16-bit digital system, the Dynamic Range is 20·log(2 16 − 1) ≈ 96 dB. Sample accuracy/synchronisation Not as much a specification as an ability. Since independent digital audio devices are each run by their own crystal oscillator, and no two crystals are exactly the same, sample rate will be slightly different. This will cause the ...

  6. Audio equipment testing - Wikipedia

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    Objectivists claim that digital sound can have higher fidelity than analog sound because it lacks clicks, pops, wow, flutter, audio feedback, degradation, generational loss, and rumble, has a higher signal-to-noise ratio, has a wider dynamic range, has less total harmonic distortion, and has a flatter and more extended frequency response.

  7. Sound quality - Wikipedia

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    Sound quality is typically an assessment of the accuracy, fidelity, or intelligibility of audio output from an electronic device. Quality can be measured objectively, such as when tools are used to gauge the accuracy with which the device reproduces an original sound; or it can be measured subjectively, such as when human listeners respond to ...

  8. Comparison of audio coding formats - Wikipedia

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    For example, MP3 and AAC dominate the personal audio market in terms of market share, though many other formats are comparably well suited to fill this role from a purely technical standpoint. First public release date is first of either specification publishing or source releasing, or in the case of closed-specification, closed-source codecs ...

  9. Wow and flutter measurement - Wikipedia

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    While wow is perceived clearly as pitch variation, flutter can alter the sound of the music differently, making it sound ‘cracked’ or ‘ugly’. A recorded 1 kHz tone with a small amount of flutter (around 0.1%) can sound fine in a ‘dead’ listening room, but in a reverberant room constant fluctuations will often be clearly heard.