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- From: owen@emds.enet.dec.com (Steve Owen)
- Subject: Re: DCC -- JUST SAY NO! (was: The end of cassettes,
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.210258.6891@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Sender: usenet@e2big.mko.dec.com (Mr. USENET)
- Organisation: Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard MA
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
- References: <27628@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Nov18.202726.454@metrosoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:02:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.202726.454@metrosoft.com#>, gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) writes...
- #>In article <27628@oasys.dt.navy.mil#> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- #>writes:
- #>#> I just got done reading the review of the Philips DCC900 DCC deck in
- #>#> this month's Stereo Review (everyone interested in DCC and MD should
- #>#> pick up a copy of this). The reviewer concludes: "...anyone who
- #>#> expects to find that perceptual coding is hokum, or that their ears
- #>#> transcend the physiological constraints upon which it is based, will be
- #>#> shocked by the very high-fidelity sound DCC actually delivers. There
- #>#> is absolutely no question that it rivals CD sound quality."
- #>#>
- #>Don't forget that these are the same people that have claimed that CD players
- #>all sound the same. "Very high-fidelity" is an interesting term from a magazine
- #>that mostly reviews mid-fi components.
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- And don't forget amps... all amps sound the same too. And CD's are perfect
- sound... there can not be any better. 8^)
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- Then ask Stereo Review why Sony has decided that CD's don't sound so hot and
- that they can be improved upon...
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- Later...
- Steve
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