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- From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
- Subject: Re: DAT vs Analogue (was Who dat say dey gonna buy dat DAT?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.193817.4507@sei.cmu.edu>
- Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews)
- Organization: The Software Engineering Institute
- References: <1992Aug20.173618.27152@wdl.loral.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:38:17 GMT
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- |> >A cheapo $600 DAT deck outperforming $2000 analogue decks? har har har!
- |> >Leave those scopes alone and listen to the damn thing! The *APPALLING* ADC
- |> >set ups in consumer DAT decks with their magnificent pre-sampling filters
- |> >are just a joy to behold. Har har har!!!! Not to mention the things being
- |> >full to the brim with poxy op-amps giving cheaps**t Japanese sound.
- |> >
- |> >Sheesh, do you people only listen to bass? Are your ears so damaged by
- |> >years of excessive volume listening that you cannot hear the detail you are
- |> >missing? The life?
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- Gee, Shane, what's the point of this? Are you lacking in convincing technical
- information, or just unwilling to share it with the masses? I suppose that
- kind of a response makes you feel better, but how does it contribute to the
- discussion?
-
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-
- The other day I brought home a recording of Beethoven piano sonatas (played by
- Klemmp, DDG). The first thing I heard before the music started was hiss. The
- next thing I heard was warbling tones on the sustained high notes.
-
- Now, in my listening room are two grand pianos, and I know enough about the
- sound of them to be sure that I was listening to wow and flutter and not
- mistuned strings. My wife, a pianist who has toured with orchestras,
- auditioned the analog CD and a new O'Connor Beethoven DDD CD. Guess which one
- she bought?
-
- Isolated experience? Not to me. I own over 600LPs and none get me as close
- to the illusion of performers in my house as the newest CDs do. In fact,
- until CDs, I never got any hint of the illusion at all except for some (fewer
- than 5) digitally recorded LPs with extra-quite surfaces.
-
- By my hearing, it took 50yrs to get analog magnetic recorders and Edison's
- reproducing machines to a level that CDs easily surpassed in five.
-
- Rich
-
-
- "Please keep in mind that the ultimate goal [of hi-fi] is the
- reproduction of art, and that the invocation of science, while a neat
- parlour trick, is often unnecessary, flawed, and unreasonable."
- -- name mercifully withheld... rsd@sei.cmu.edu
-