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  • Disk Transcription - by Robert Auld -- What to do when confronted with the ghost of Enrico Caruso or an old radio broadcast transcription disk. (With a list of equipment suppliers for this arcane art, and MP3 files of broadcast transcription disk playback.)

  • Direct-to-Disc at AES -by Robert Auld -- At the 2001 Audio Engineering Convention in New York City, the 1970's art of audiophile direct-to-disc recording was revived for convention attendees. Here is a report of what happened, along with photographs and an MP3 file of one of the recordings made at the session.

  • The Dynamics of Streaming Audio -by Robert Auld -- The conventional wisdom is that you should compress the heck out of your program material. Does that make sense? (Adapted from the original article in Recording Magazine.)

  • The Art of Recording the Big Band -by Robert Auld -- a paper examining engineering practices from the 1920's to the present day, with some subjective opinions on what works best for recording the jazz big band.

  • Archiving to CDR: some considerations -by Robert Auld -- Should we be archiving audio material to CDR or to some other medium? What are the pros and cons?

- Links and stuff -

  • Links -a selective annotated collection of links to audio-related subjects and other things.

  • Theatre-Sound Manufacturers Links - a comprehensive collection of links to professional and consumer audio manufacturers, kept here as part of the Theatre-Sound Mailing List home page (if you are interested in live theater sound, take a look at their site, linked from these pages).

  • Humor -not necessarily about audio.

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