In article , Dave Plowman (News)
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In article , JNugent
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But the digital effect would not be to turn down the volume (as with
analogue tape). It would be manifested as a perfect signal until the
degradation reached a certain point, when the signal would become
incoherent. Just as happens with a TV aerial being used to recieve and
transfer digital transmission into a digital TV. Or like with a CD
with a fingerprint of strawberry jam on it.

The sort of level of print through means in practice digital systems
ignore it. Or that's my experience.

I'm not sure if digital magnetic recordings would print though in the same
way as analogue. This is because I suspect the magnetic material is a
different formulation and is driven into saturation. But the more you
examine the behaviour of magnetic recording and the magnetic properties of
the materials, the weirder they turn out to be, so I could easily be wrong!
:-)

Slainte,

Jim

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