That's nice if you want top 40 or classic rock, but there are many genres not carried in most stores. I like gothic and darkwave music. Bands like Wolfsheim, VNV Nation, Black Tape For A Blue Girl. Try finding any of those to preview or purchase in a local store.
You mention signal degradation. Well, with audio cassettes, you get more loss with each generation copied. But if you (worst case) record an analog signal, your only loss is at the first recording. All subsequent copies are just as good.
Very true.
I'm not an audio nut, but this is fine with me. My imperfect human ears cannot distinguish the difference between an MP3 that was sourced from a digital CD, versus an MP3 that was sourced from an FM station or a digital sampling of the analog output of a stereo.
Many people could likely hear the difference from a FM station sourced MP3, but I doubt very few could hear the difference from a properly made MP3 using a good quality soundcard and the analog output of a CD player. Of course this is all kind of moot with programs like Total Recorder existing which will deliver the same quality as a rip.
I've done various experiments with liquid nitrogen and used regular glass thermos bottles and never had a problem with breakage. Tell us what leads you to believe breakage is a problem (like your experiences with glass dewars).
A neat experiment with LN is to take a high intensity red LED and immerse it in LN. Hook it to a variable power supply and use no current limit resistor. At room temp, the forward voltage is about 1.7 volts. In the LN the LED behaves more like a resistor rather than a diode. I got the forward voltage to about 20 volts and 2 amps before it blew (yes 40 watts!). It was extremely bright before it blew. Also, around 10 volts the spectrum shifted from red to yellow. Quite interesting..
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"...with any CD in the store."
That's nice if you want top 40 or classic rock, but there are many genres not carried in most stores. I like gothic and darkwave music. Bands like Wolfsheim, VNV Nation, Black Tape For A Blue Girl. Try finding any of those to preview or purchase in a local store.
You mention signal degradation. Well, with audio cassettes, you get more loss with each generation copied. But if you (worst case) record an analog signal, your only loss is at the first recording. All subsequent copies are just as good.
Very true.
I'm not an audio nut, but this is fine with me. My imperfect human ears cannot distinguish the difference between an MP3 that was sourced from a digital CD, versus an MP3 that was sourced from an FM station or a digital sampling of the analog output of a stereo.
Many people could likely hear the difference from a FM station sourced MP3, but I doubt very few could hear the difference from a properly made MP3 using a good quality soundcard and the analog output of a CD player. Of course this is all kind of moot with programs like Total Recorder existing which will deliver the same quality as a rip.I've done various experiments with liquid nitrogen and used regular glass thermos bottles and never had a problem with breakage. Tell us what leads you to believe breakage is a problem (like your experiences with glass dewars).
A neat experiment with LN is to take a high intensity red LED and immerse it in LN. Hook it to a variable power supply and use no current limit resistor. At room temp, the forward voltage is about 1.7 volts. In the LN the LED behaves more like a resistor rather than a diode. I got the forward voltage to about 20 volts and 2 amps before it blew (yes 40 watts!). It was extremely bright before it blew. Also, around 10 volts the spectrum shifted from red to yellow. Quite interesting..