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- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- From: tlai@cs.toronto.edu (Tony W H Lai)
- Subject: Re: CD vs. LP again (was Re: Preamp and Amp)
- Message-ID: <93Jan22.222934est.47553@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
- Followup-To: talk.bizarre
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- References: <1993Jan19.221047.7313@bnr.ca> <1190792@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 03:29:43 GMT
- Lines: 20
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- In article <1190792@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> kurts@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Kurt Strain) writes:
- >In rec.audio, jj@alice.att.com (jj, sick and tired of all this nonsense) writes:
- >> Kurt, you seem to be incapable of accepting the well-established
- >> fact that there are euphonic distortions. It's no judgement on
- >> your preferences, after all, arguing personal preference is pointless.
- >
- >> Such distortions have been shown since the days of the rotating
- >> wax roll recording. They do not judge the person who likes
- >> them, they just ARE. If you like them, fine, but when you
- >> start to argue about "digital looses the music" and so on,
- >> you're going beyond preference to making factual statements.
- >
- >You still don't get the simple fact that we are trying to remove the
- >goddamn euphonic distortions from the record. We are not interested in
- >them. That's why people spend upwards of $25K for a turntable system,
- >TO REMOVE THE UNWANTED DISTORTIONS, GET IT?!!!!!! [stuff deleted]
-
- So euphonic distortions are unwanted? Does this mean you want accurate
- sound, and not pleasant sound? Isn't that an argument the pro-digital
- people use? :)
-