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- From: sss@castle.ed.ac.uk (S S Sturrock)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Digital critics - sampling argument is nonsense
- Message-ID: <30641@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:37:26 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.211233.37643@watson.ibm.com>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <1993Jan20.211233.37643@watson.ibm.com> zellers@22_clancy.manassas.ibm.com (Cevin M Zellers) writes:
- >I recently witnessed another case of the analog sentimentalist trying
- >to use the 'sampling' argument to lodge a complaint against Digital.
- >
- >It was MTV, with they're nifty diagrams showing how sampled digital sound
- >loses information because of the 'choppy' digital waveform. Unfortunately,
-
- Sorted out by oversampling.
-
- >critics are pressing this argument and misleading the public, due to their
- >ignorance of the Nyquist Sampling theorem. All of you digital skeptics,
- >please note that CD's capture ALL frequencies up to 44.5 KHz, reproducing
-
- :-) Number blunder, but others have pointed that out.
-
- >them faithfully (butter than vinyl, I argue). Frequencies above 44.5 KHz
- >don't matter, that's far above the threshold of hearing anyway :)
-
- So it is.
-
- It sounds like the analogue proponents on MTV were flat earthers who just
- refuse to accept that digital is the way forward.
-
- On the other hand, you get analogue users like myself who still like LPs
- for the simple reason that they sound better to us, as JJ pointed out quite
- eloquently thankyou very much.
-
- On the other hand, just why CDs sound bad to some of us is a matter of
- great argument and again as JJ pointed out the above arguments are very
- dubious.
-
- What does please me is that the designers of digital designers are finally
- coming down off their high horses where they have sat for so long claiming
- that digital is perfect and are now listening to those of us who have
- complained about the sound and they are finding that we may well have a
- point and are *DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT* rather than declaring us all
- loonies who want to live in caves or whatever. HDCD no doubt stems from a
- lot of learning between both camps and I openly welcome it. If at last it
- gives me CDs I can happily live with then *YIPPEE!* is all I can say.
- Until it becomes freely available though I will keep spinning and buying
- vinyl because I find it captures the sound in a way that communicates with
- *ME*.
-
-
- --
- Shane Sturrock, Biocomputing Research Unit, Darwin Building, Mayfield Road,
- University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Commonwealth of Independent Kingdoms. :-)
-
- Civilisation is a Haggis Supper with salt and sauce and a bottle of Irn Bru.
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