[78-L] Sound remaster an restoration/where to start

[Mike Richter]

P G C wrote:
> At the end, would you keep the resulting files as WAV or compress it to someting like MP3?
> 
> (I have HD space so I keep the original "flat" file in WAV (maybe future SW filters, or experience, can get better results) and the resulting remaster in MP3)

Logically, the answer is "yes".

Any significant audio archiving - even if only for one's personal access 
- should be in a lossless format. Whether WAV, AIFF, APE, FLAC or 
something else depends on individual tradeoffs.

For ease of access and convenience, one may also want one or more lossy 
formats such as MP3.

Example: All of Caruso's recordings may be published on ten discs in 
CD-DA with one implicit index; or on a single CD-ROM with indexes of 
various sorts in serviceable MP3. They serve different purposes such 
that neither format would be desirable for the other function.

Mike
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