Thanks to all who answered this thread. I am privileged to get to learn from everybody's experience! -Joe D On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 11:32 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > Bouncing a final mix to 1/2 inch tape before the final print allows you > > to do the 44.1 conversion from a high quality analog source. But, it > > assumes that the source recordings and processing was done at an > > extremely high level - i.e. DSD. And unfortunately, we don't yet have > > any open-source tools for manipulating DSD. I know of a few mastering > > houses that would *kill* to be using GNU/Linux if the tools were > > available. > > there is a still quite a lot of controversy over whether or not Sony's 1 > bit/MHz clock design actually *is* better than more "traditional" > approaches. i know there is a lot of good marketing to explain why its > so cool, but that doesn't seem to be backed up by any substantive double > blind testing. even the math analysis is heavy on marketing bullshit. > -- Joseph Dell'Orfano <fullgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>