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- From: sture@lulea.trab.se (Sture Jonsson)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Comments on analog music
- Message-ID: <5584@othmar.lulea.trab.se>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 12:05:55 GMT
- References: <24668@alice.att.com>
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- jj, curmudgeon and all-around grouch (jj@alice.att.com) wrote:
- : In article <1jjtgdINNiee@transfer.stratus.com> rsud@sw.stratus.com (Rajiv Sud) writes:
- : >.....
-
- : One cannot argue with preference. If you like it, you LIKE IT,
- : no muss, no fuss.
-
- : On the other hand, when one starts to make claims like
- : 'analog is definitive', or 'there is less information
- : in digital recordings', one is stepping across the boundary
- : of preference and is now making factual scientific statements,
- : and statements that are indeed trivially refutable.
-
- I suppose it is also possible to refute the claims that EXISTING digital
- products aimed at the home-market sound good since the THEORIES about digital
- audio processing says that digital means less distorsion than analog.
-
- My main complaint about digital audio and digital-pro people is that they
- confuse theory with implementation. (no, jj, I don't believe that you do that.
- At least I hope you don't. But many other seem to)
-
- I'm the first to agree that A LOT has happened with the implementations over
- the last few years (say two, three or less). So much that I now believe it is
- actually possible to make good digital audio processors that the average Joe
- can afford, and that is something I shouldn't have said, say two years, ago.
-
- At that time I was one of the people saying that analog had more information
- than digital (which I got from another source; not an excuse, but an
- explanation). Now I'm beginning to believe that was wrong, since the digital
- sound has improved so much.
-
- I still say however, that when people like Shiv and myself (and many other on
- and off the net) say they like analog more than digital (meaning EXISTING
- products, not theory) it is not only 'preference'. If it was preference, why
- is it that the digital sound has (in my ears) improved so much ? I don't own
- a CD player. The total amount of time that I spent last year listening to
- CD:s was maybe 5 - 6 hours (most of it spent a weekend when I borrowed the
- Linn CD player from the store) compared to maybe 1000 hours or more listening
- to analog records. So I don't think that has 'brainwashed' me to 'like'
- the CD sound more. I say the CD sound has changed.
-
- Why do I like it more ? Well, it sounds more like my recordplayer (not only
- the Linn CD, but also other brands). So what did they do ? Put a lot of
- LP distorsion on the discs, or a special 'analog distorsion' circuit in the
- players ?
-
- I say they realized that there are (were?) problems with the current
- IMPLEMENTATIONS (no more 'perfect sound forever' bullshit) and made the
- IMPLEMENTATIONS a lot better.
-
- LISTEN and enjoy,
- Sture
-