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- From: myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:00:40 GMT
- Subject: Re: Comments on analog music
- Message-ID: <7490278@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- > You say analogue is distorted. I take it you imply that digital is
- > not. Amazing. You know, back in high school we calculated how far a gallon
- > of gasoline, when combusted, could move a 3000lb object. We came up with
- > about 150 miles. If digital is perfect because the nyquist equation is
- > perfect I guess I should stop believing my gas gauge.
-
- This is not, however, what the "pro-digital" camp (as you are wont to call
- us) is saying. I defy you to show ANY past posting (and hopefully, any
- future one as well) in which jj, myself, or any others who have taken the
- Analog True Believers to task have done so by saying that any given
- implementation to date was "perfect" or even nearly so. All that has been
- said is that we know very what what the inherent limitations of the digital
- recording process are, that they are a hell of lot better than the inherent
- limitations of the current analog processes, and that the vast majority of
- the "reasons" given as to why "digital == BAD" are so much horse manure.
- Like jj said, I will not and have not argue with you on points of personal
- preference; if you like it, you like it, and that's fine. But by the same
- token, don't expect people to sit idly by while someone attempts to rewrite
- signal theory, either.
-
- Now, re-read the above, after you've cooled down. Note that I referred to
- the "inherent limitations of the process". This says NOTHING about ANY
- current implementation, or what the shortcomings of a given implementation
- might be - and God knows that there have been plenty, the vast majority of
- which having NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the fact that the source of the
- signal was a digital recording.
-
-
- Bob Myers KC0EW Hewlett-Packard Co. |Opinions expressed here are not
- Systems Technology Div. |those of my employer or any other
- myers@fc.hp.com Fort Collins, Colorado |sentient life-form on this planet.
-