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- From: zellers@22_clancy.manassas.ibm.com (Cevin M Zellers )
- Subject: Re: Digital critics - sampling argument is nonsense
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.213648.32065@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 21:36:48 GMT
- Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research
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- > I'm confused. Are you a critic of analog ?
-
- Before I get torched to death, I should restate that I am not necessarily a
- critic of analog (praise our audiophile roots) but an advocate of digital.
-
- In a few short words, if the music is recorded and mixed in Digital, the
- noise floor is simply MUCH lower (20+ dB) and analog distortion is reduced.
- This gives you better headroom and more listening fun.
-
- But to go back to John Galloways argument, you state that only the 'canine
- inspired' can diffentiate between a 20KHz sawtooth and a sine. But thats
- enough for me to take my signal generator down Audio Buys (D.C.) and give
- this experiment a first-hand-test. Roof Roof :) :)
-
- If I can tell the difference, I may just have to scrap my CD's and plug in
- the old vinyl player until you guys pull the sampling frequency out another
- 50 KHz!
-
- Cheers,
- Cevin
-