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- From: myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:59:12 GMT
- Subject: Re: Digital Amps -> next???
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- > Umm. I'm not so sure on this one. Digital preamps for DAT and CD make a lot
- > of sense as the switching, volume control, balance, and special effects
- > can all be done in the digital domain. However, one must make the switch-
- > over to analog at some point as music is an analog phenomonon. Digital
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- I agree with what you're saying here, Paul, but you unfortunately and
- unintentionally tripped one of my "hot buttons." We need to get out of this
- habit of referring to what might be called "continuous-wave" phenomena as
- "analog." Music is NOT "analog," although it may certainly be considered
- as continuous waveforms. The very name "analog" comes from "analogous" -
- while an analog process will probably be "continuous", the two are NOT
- synonyms. The confusion between these two has led to the common
- misunderstanding that you often see expressed here as "analog record has to
- be better, since 'music is analog'!"
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- Bob Myers | "One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."
- myers@fc.hp.com | - Lazarus Long/Robert A. Heinlein
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