Reply-To: jj@alice.UUCP (jj, curmudgeon and all-around grouch)
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In article <5621@othmar.lulea.trab.se> sture@lulea.trab.se (Sture Jonsson) writes:
>What one also CAN deny is that the CD player you buy in a store reproduces
>better music than the turntable you buy (for a 'random' group of people) because
>the sampling theorem (or any other theory concerning digital music reproduction)
>has been proved.
I'm not sure you can. You can easily say that "I prefer x". That's
not arguable. When one wants to evaluate "better" for any purpose
one has to know what "better" is. If you are saying "better
for Sture", that's perfectly reasonable. If you are saying
"better for all", that's a wee bit tougher... :-)
Of course, you can't say it's "better" or "worse", only "different"
unless you have either a measure of "better" or you're talking your
own preference.
According to "analytic" standards, CD wins hands down, but of course,
I have that fight every day with somebody who wants to know
a signal to noise ratio, and to which I give the same old
demo... SNR means nothing in perceptual terms.
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