[Dtb-talk] Converting tone indexed books to DAISY

[Aaron Cannon]

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While you are correct, that doesn't fit the current issue.  We aren't
recording and playing back at high speeds, we are playing back at high speed
something that was recorded at a slow speed.  Nevertheless, you are correct
that theoretically it shouldn't matter how fast we play it back.  However,
we are using noncommercial equipment and it probably can't faithfully
reproduce the audio, especially when we're talking about frequencies which
are beyond those normally heard by humans.

Every time we double the speed, we double the frequency, hence half of our
bandwidth is lost.  It might be worth trying to record at 96KHZ while
playing at 4x speed, but my guess is that the problem isn't in the recorder,
but rather in the player being able to reproduce frequencies 4 times those
for which it was designed.  It's just my guess though, the problem may be
somewhere else entirely.


Aaron Cannon


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From: <DanFlasar at aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Converting tone indexed books to DAISY


> Actually, there is no reason to assume that copying at  high speed makes
> any
> difference in quality.  In the days of reel-to-reel  recording, the slower
> speeds offered the least quality, probably because you had  less
> 'granularity' on
> the tape.  Hence the faster speeds offered the best  reproduction.  I'm
> sure
> there has to be a limit to the speed but industrial  recording dupers run
> at
> very high speeds indeed and the quality is fine.
> Dan
>


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