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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Comments on analog music
- Message-ID: <185085@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 02:55:31 GMT
- Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation
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- In article <1993Jan21.185036.3690@bmerh85.bnr.ca> shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally) writes:
- >
- >Thanks for the support. Once I got a CD player I almost completely
- >stopped listening to vinyl because (a) its inconvenient since you
- >have to keep flipping and (b) the surface noise and occassional pops and
- >ticks are annoying. When I played the album recently and listened to
- >it, I was shocked by how good it sounded - the smoothness, the
- >depth of the soundstage. I hadn't expected it to sound that good !
- >(I'm sure my recently acquired KEF 103.4s have something to do with it).
- >People have to experience it for themselves - it seems so contrary to
- >what you would expect.
- >
- It IS contrary to what you would expect....but unfortunately
- MOST of the universe has a really nasty habit of contradicting
- human thought.
-
- However, it is NOT contrary to human knowledge....many of the
- fundamental reasons were actually documented long before records
- were invented.
-
-
- >CD has come a long way though, and some of the new techniques help - Sony
- >has a new 18 bit encoding scheme that is played back on existing
- >players with improved resolution.
-
- These will actually make things worse for many listeners. The
- cleaner the CD sound, the more quite a few listeners will
- characterize it as cold and sterile. A common description is
- "very accurate" said with a tone that clearly implies the cold
- and sterile.
-
- This is NOT a slap at the LP fans, it is an acknowledgement that
- the two media sound drastically different in character--and even
- moreso at the extremes of their approach to perfection for the
- technology.
-
- I am personally amazed that Bob Carver hasn't created a custom
- DSP chip to modify the sound of [a good] CD to make it sound
- more like a top quality LP played back through state of the art
- turntable, cartridge, tube amplifier, and electrostatic or
- ribbon speakers. His infamous "Digital Time Lens" was hopefully
- just an April Fool's joke.
-
- I'd much prefer some of the additional bandwidth of future
- digital audio standards be allocated to recording additional
- channels of information. Say, front main, front ambience, and
- rear ambience...and possibly front center. That way you'd have
- a pretty good odds of capturing the real sound of the original
- performance as if you were there.
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