From: "Glenn Meadows" 

The DVD-A or SACD versions sourced from less than stellar versions.  All of
the recordings had been transferred to 16bit 44.1 3M Digital in the early
80's, and the analog 2 tracks were in horrible shape when I remastered the
material for re-relapse on regular CD and then the Citizen Steely Dan box
set.  Back at the start of DVD-A stuff, we were asked to re-master several
tracks and re-capture at 24/96, but the 3M tapes were having trouble
playing at that point.

That's one of the serious archive issues with the various digital audio
formats, long term playability, as well as being able to read the old
formats chosen years ago to record with.

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Glenn M.
"mike"  wrote in message
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>
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:59:51 -0600, "Glenn Meadows"

> wrote:
>
>>Thanks, I try.  Gets harder all the time though, as quality of playback
>>devices goes down, it becomes disheartening at times, because what's at
>>the
>>head end of the pipe music wise, sounds SO much better than what comes out
>>the other end.  Maybe someday there will be a resurgence of quality
>>playback
>>in the home.
>
> A [2 decade] younger friend stopped over last night.  He is in the
> process of discovering 24/192kHz digital audio.  He also has just
> discovered Steely Dan music.  I told him of Citizen Dan, but he said he
> is looking for DVD-A or SACD versions.
>
> So I played my MFSL vinyl version of Steely Dan's /Aja/ (the song) for
> him.  He was very surprised at the high quality of the sound.
>
>  /m

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