Audio Format Wars

Audio Format Wars

        By: Sheldon Khan

        Before buying a newborn cable car, getting married, or adopting a new audio data formatting it is wise to ask a few questions, peer down the stairs the hood, and ask the advice of someone you trust. Will the new format come across your needs not only now but, also in the future? Will it look (and in force(p)) as good on all the mornings after you first met?         

        The additive cassette is an old and trusted versatile friend that went with you on those morning jogs and cruised in the car with you on Friday nights. However, the powers that be, have decl bed our trusted friend to be in the last phase of the life cycle. Its successor moldiness sound better, work better, and have new features such as a digital display for song titles. There are currently two formats competing to be the consumers next choice for sound on the go. They are Philips Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) and Sonys Mini dish antenna (MD).

                 What exactly is digital recording? The definition is, An electronic format that is designed to duplicate sound, while affording extremely accurate hold in over any changes you might wish to make in the recording (Mclan & Wichman,1988). In simple terms it means that the digital circuitry samples the signal and then reproduces what it has seen.



The quality of the recording depends on the consume rate of the machine. The sampled signal is then encoded to the tape or dish in 1s and 0s, just like a computer record book drive would encode information. However, the biggest advantage of digital recording is the situation that it eliminates tape hiss that is usually found present in analogue recordings.         

        In the Eighties, a Philips invention captured the limelight. The Compact Disc introduced us to a new...

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