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RE: confusion again

Posted by belyin (A) on June 7, 2023 at 10:04:58

In Reply to: RE: confusion again posted by John Elison on June 6, 2023 at 13:34:52:

So 10,000 years is hyperbolic, but pvc takes a very long time to degrade (a big ecological problem,) and an archived lp should last a very long time. There was no vinyl records a 100 years ago, yet 100 year old phonograph records pressed on shellac (a much less stable material) if unplayed and well stored still sound pretty much just like the day they were pressed.

But really I think we are talking about two very different things. You are approaching this from an audiophile perspective, and I am thinking about this from an archival perspective of preserving cultural material across long periods of time with no guaranteed of a continuous and uninterrupted cultural and social continuity. In other words, if our "civilization" collapses in a few hundred years and a new human social formation develops a thousand years later, if they discover an lp it wouldn't take all that much technical sophistication to retrieve information from it, but what would they do with a compact disk or a hard drive?

My first record project was recorded 23 years ago on a Tascam D-88, an 8 track digital recorder that used Dtrs 8mm video cassettes (they look like DATs, but are different.) This was Tascam's response to the more common ADAT system from Alesis that used VHS tapes for 8 track digital recording. But the twist was that my engineer used a special box (I think it was called a Rat Packer) that instead of 8 tracks at 16/44.1, it enabled two tracks at 24/88.2 (or was it 24/96?) It would be difficult for me retrieve this data today, and in a 100 years . . .?

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