Leopold's Comparison Between Audio Formats

The cells that are left totally empty are the ones for which I don't know the answers yet.
If someone knows enough to fill me in with some other interesting audio formats or the blank spaces, feel free to mail!
The audio systems are in approximate quality order.
Columns
l DAT: Digital Audio Tape with all three speeds.
l LD DD: NTSC laserdiscs with Dolby Digital encoding.
l CD/LD: CD and NTSC laserdisc digital sound (PAL LDs are similar to NTSC LDs but the maximum playback time is 72 min).
l DCC: Philips' Digital Compact Cassette (that can also play compact cassettes).
l MD: Sony's Mini Disk.
l VHS: Two versions of PAL VHS: Long Play with Hi-Fi tracks, and Short Play without Hi-Fi tracks or stereo or Dolby NR.
l TV: Two versions of PAL television broadcast: with NICAM digital audio and with German A2 analog stereo.
l Radio: Two versions of European radio: FM and AM.
l CC: Compact Cassette with three different noise reduction systems and without them. It must be noted that the Dolby noise reduction system only
affects noise in the upper voice band, whereas DBX reduces noise in the whole audible frequency range.
l V8 Dig.: Digital sound of Video-8.
l LP: Long Play vinyl records.
l Phone: Telephone signals as transmitted in digital form.
l GSM: Digital GSM mobile telephone.
Rows
l Domain: The type of system: Digital, Analog, Analog FM, or Analog AM.
l Compr. or NR: With digital systems the type of compression or the compression rate is presented, with analog systems the name of the noise
reduction system is presented. N-lin. means that the samples are stored or transfered in companded form.
l Sampling Bits: If digital, the amount of bits used in sampling before compression.
l Sample Rate: If digital, the sampling rate (samples / s).
l S/N Ratio: The signal to noise ratio of sound with noise reduction (dB).
l Wow & Flutter: Wow and flutter present (%).
l Channels: The amount of sound channels available.
l Ch. Sep.: Channel separation (dB).
l Low Freq.: The lowest frequency the system can reproduce without attenuating more than 3 dB (Hz).
l High Freq. (-20 dB): The highest frequency the system can reproduce without attenuating more than 3 dB (Hz). The signal is recorded 20 dB
lower compared to the maximum the system can record.
l High Freq. (0 dB): The highest frequency the system can reproduce without attenuating more than 3 dB (Hz). The signal is recorded as loud as the
system can take.
l Max. Pb.: Maximum playback time (min).
DAT
LD
DD
CD LD MD DCC VHS TV Radio
CC (Compact
Cassette)
V8
Dig.
LP Phone GSM
Domain Dig. Dig. Dig. Dig. Dig.
An.
FM
An. Dig. An.
An.
FM
An.
AM
An. Dig. An. Dig.
Compr. or
NR
-
N-
lin.
10:1 - 5:1 4:1 ? - 14:10 - - DBX
Dolby
C
Dolby
B
- N-lin. - N-lin.
5:1 N-
lin.
Sample
Bits
16 12 18..20 16 16 16 - 14 - - - 8 - 8
Sample
Rate
48k 44.1k 32k 48k 44.1k 44.1k
48k
44.1k
32k
- 32k - - - 32k - 8k
S/N Ratio 96 90 90 96 100 90 90 42 84 65 78 50 90 80 70 60 75 80 55
Channels 2 5.1 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1
Ch. Sep. 96 90 90 96 - 95 90 - 84 40 50 - 60 40 40 40 75 30 -
Wow &
Flutter
- - - - - 0.005 0.4 - - 0.1 - 0.05 -
Low Freq. 5 5 2 5 20 20 20 100 20 50 30 40 35 20 30 100
High Freq.
(-20dB)
22k 20k 15k
20k
120
20k 20k 20k 20k 11k 15k 15k 15k 5k 20k 15k 20k 3.2k
High Freq.
(0dB)
22k 20k 15k
20k
120
20k 20k 20k 20k 3k 15k 15k 5k 5k 5k 15k 10k 3.2k
Max. Pb. 120 240 60 78 60 148 74 2x45 600 300 - - 2x60 240 2x25 -
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