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- From: myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:45:07 GMT
- Subject: Re: CD Sound Quality
- Message-ID: <7490271@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- References: <1992Dec19.113749.8088@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- > Obviously yet another "critical listener" who auditioned
- > a $200 CD player versus a $200 phono set-up and decided
- > that digital was inherently better.
- >
-
- Not so fast, Mike - that same sin (or similar) has been committed equally
- often by the pro-analog crowd; especially the sin of believing that a problem
- with a particular "digital" system or implementation was sufficient to damn
- the basic idea of digital storage.
-
- What I would love to see would be a posting from someone who dislikes any of
- the current digital formats, in which an improved format is suggested, and
- *why* that person thinks that the proposed improvements are worthwhile.
-
-
- > PS-- I've been wondering: wouldn't it be possible to
- > have a optical, analog format? Isn't that
- > effectively what LD's are? Would such a format
- > give us the best of both worlds: durability,
- > convenience, *and* sound quality?
-
- Yes, that IS what LDs are; now why do you think this would be better than
- any existing format? The bandwidth? They're certainly not very convenient
- (too big), nor are they as durable as CDs (given the analog nature of the
- signal, they're not nearly as forgiving of defects as the error-corrected
- digital CD format).
-
-
- Bob Myers | "One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."
- myers@fc.hp.com | - Lazarus Long/Robert A. Heinlein
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