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- From: hpang@engin.umich.edu (Ho Sun Pang)
- Subject: Re: CD's .vs. LP's (Re: Neighbor's loud stereo
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 09:42:13 EST
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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- In article <1992Nov20.035645.19668@en.ecn.purdue.edu> kwan@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Yik-Yin Edwin Kwan) writes:
- >Here comes something which makes me unpleasant. First of all, not all
- >proclaimed "sky disc"'s are classical. At least there was one by
- >Police. And many jazz albums are popular choices for testing too. One
- >of them is Jazz at the Pawnshop, LP era Sweden "sky disc". An example
- >of a pop "sky disc" is Jennifer Warnes's Famous Blue Raincoat, and if
- >you don't mind, Dire Strait's Money for Nothing.
- >
- >The meaning of pushing a Hi-Fi equipment to its limit is unclear. If
- >you only test a Hi-Fi setup for its output dynamic range, it is not
- >only an incomplete test, it is also a sick behavior; imagine someone
- >buys a 1812 Overture and only listens to those several minutes with
- >the cannon sound.
- >
- >Again, arguing which is better between CD and LP is a waste of time.
- >This topic should belong to rec.audio. I see tomatoes and eggs
- >already...
- >
- >Sorry folks!
- >
- >--
- > (
- > ))
- > ( )
- > / \ Yik-Yin Edwin Kwan
- > ( ) kwan@ecn.purdue.edu
- > / \
- > ( ^ ^ ) " Take me with you!
- > / ) .... I would like to immigrate! "
- > ( O )
- > \__ _/ (C) 1991 Edwin Kwan
- > ~~-----~~
-
- Sorry folks, I don't think you know Hi-Fis enough. A "par excellence"
- Hi-Fi is *NOT* decided by how loud and how clear the output is! So if think
- playing the Police, the Jazz album or the final canons of "1812 Overture",
- I doubt if you could know Hi-Fi.
-
- Sorry, but the classical works that really tests a Hi-Fi are those which are
- very complex in textures (that's why most real tests come from classical
- works). Yea, people pay too much about the canons or gorgeous brass sounds,
- but do you pay attention to the textures? If you know orchestra music good
- enough, you'd definitely know how complex a Mahlerian score is, and you'd
- know how the counterpoint lines are screw-up by your less-than HK$20000
- Hi-Fi equipment. I've experience in listening awesome Hi-Fis that you
- could *FEEL* where the instruments exactly are, and hear *EACH* line
- clearly. Today's digitial recording technology could reprodcuce that 70%
- of the time, but NOT IN 1983. That's why LPs were superior than CD back
- in 1983, but not in today.
-
- I don't think this talk is a waste of time. At least, you should know if a
- salesman only show you how loud the canons could be played, or how loud the
- drums could blow you away, or how gorgeous the brass sounds are, be alerted.
-
- But if you don't listen to (or doesn't know much about) classical music,
- never mind.
-
- - Louis
-
- P.S. I'd ask the salesman to play me Schonberg's "Transfigurated Night"
- (the string orchestra version), played by Berlin Philharmonic and
- conducted by Hrbert von Karajan.
-
-