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- From: willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore)
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <MKAHN.92Jul22092527@hopi.sedona.intel.com> <1992Jul25.075130.7192@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1992Jul28.181448.24805@Princeton.EDU> <1992Jul28.220306.12549@mprgate.mpr.ca>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:35:25 GMT
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- mcvey@mpr.ca (Iain McVey) writes:
- >The only thing CD's have done for sound reproduction is removed media
- >noise.
-
- Also, the lack of several playback and recording related distortions,
- i.e. flutter.
-
- >brick wall filtering introduces annoying harmonics, and your ear does
- >hear quantization noise.
-
- That's why I'm glad it hasn't been used in even the cheapest CD player
- for several years. If you music is *very* quiet and you *really* crank
- up the volume, yes, you can hear it. Sheesh....
-
- >Don't get me wrong, I own a CD player and love the crisp sound you get
- >every time, and the fact that I don't have to wipe down the discs each
- >time I play them. I also realize that a $200 CD player will definitely
- >out perform a $200 turntable.
-
- This is where the comparison comes. I smaller amount of money can give
- better performance when used to produce a RISC processor than it could
- to produce a CISC processor. This is only true on the low end. When
- you get to the high end, anything goes.
-
- > There is a warmth that comes from vinyl that is very
- >difficult to produce from a CD player.
-
- Most of this "warmth" can be reproduced on a CD by taking the low level
- signal likes out of the CD player and placing them near AC power lines.
-
- >People tend to attack the cpu in DOS boxes, and worry over backwards
- >compatiblity. Perhaps we should look to improve the rest of the system
- >as well.
-
- Running DOS, there has been little stress on thest other components until
- recently. Now that people demand diffenent things from their systems,
- i.e. Windows performance, it is no suprise that systems long since tuned
- for DOS use would not be the best machine for a completely different OS
- environment. Is there suprise here?
-
- >- Iain -
-
- David Willmore
- willmore@iastate.edu
-