"Laurence Payne" wrote
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:49:41 +0000, The Artist
wrote:

That's not strictly true, because the side effects of the compression
format can have beneficial consequences in some circumstances.

So which compression system do you recommend, in what circumstances,
and why?

Well cassette tape ought to work well; it discards anything above, ooh,
8kHz! Nyquist says "It takes up less space then!". Does sound a bit
ropey, though.

I remember though, in the golden days of the Walkman in the late 1980s.
I had two really "high-end" Aiwa models. An HS-J08 and an HS-JX101, if I
remember correctly. They had, like, (wired) remote controls and stopped
automatically at the quiet bit between tracks, and so on. Those were
pretty cool, especially given the absence of any superior portable medium
at the time. (Portable CD players can be safely disregarded, then, as
now, because they're so big.)

Martin
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