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- From: rsud@sw.stratus.com (Rajiv Sud)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Comments on analog music
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 15:21:18 GMT
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- In some post a short time ago I made references to "engineers" vs
- engineers. Looks like serious "engineer" alert here....
-
- as jj writes:
- > You have NO technical facts to stand on, and we both know it.
-
- You know what, jj, you are absolutely right.
-
- In a prior post you also pontificate on how my liking
- analogue was a preference. Right on again. IT IS a preference and
- one based on not a single idy bity fact! (two for two! high fives
- for jj all around)
- But you know what, I also can't give you a single fact or
- equation as to why I prefer to eat at a gourmet resturant instead
- of pulling into a mcdonalds.
- Can't offer any facts or equations as to why I would prefer
- a good european larger over a six pack of bud.
- Can't offer any of your coveted facts for why one might
- prefer to read an acknowledged literary work over a harlequin(sp?)
- romance.
- You may be thinking I'm off the track here but, no, this is
- where the crux of this debate lies. We are not able to attach facts
- or equations to most things in life. What we do have is that HUMAN
- search for truth and beauty. And if you suggest that everything that
- needs to be measured has been, well, thats crock from an "engineer".
- Distortions from a turntable are generally euphonic and it
- is (you'll love this part) a measured fact that better turntable
- designs minimize these distortions. Ascending to better turntable
- designs (ones with measured reduced distortions) resulting in better
- sound would seem to put a bit of a hole in your "analogue is liked
- because its distorted" theory.
- In digital much of the distortion is in the signal itself.
- Some of these distortions have been identified after "prefect sound
- forever" was unleashed. Gain riding is one example. Jitter, known
- about for some time, but now getting lots of attention is another.
- The nature of turntable and digitial distortions and their
- sonic effects makes them literally apples and oranges. Share with
- us what FACTS you have used to equate the two and pronounce digital
- distortions as less.
- Bottom line may be that you, indeed, have reached the limits
- of your hearing. My experience reveals that this is more often due
- to a closed mind and "good enough for me" mentality then by genetics.
- Considering the steady advance of digital over the past 11
- years of consumer availability perhaps you can tell us at what point
- digital became better for you. This would actually work out to be a
- good gauge of your hearing limitations.
-
- ..Rajiv
-