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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: <30692@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 14:16:58 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.211233.37643@watson.ibm.com> <C17snA.Ix9@hfglobe.intel.com>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <C17snA.Ix9@hfglobe.intel.com> jlo@hfglobe.intel.com (Jeffrey Lo) writes:
- >
- >Peter Gabriel said that at first he was fully taken in by the idea of
- >digital audio and then he saw the light and came back to analog.
- >Let's try a little experiment. Listen to his Security album (full
- >digital), and his latest album, Us (presumably analog). Although
- >Security is not the best sounding album I've heard, it's quite good.
- >Us on the other hand, sounds like the band was buried in a mud bog
- >with a thick blanket over it. It sounds bad wether it is coming out
- >of your TV or B&W 801s. This makes me distrust his sonic opinions.
-
- On the other hand, SO was analogue mastered and sounds excellent. Poor
- sound quality should not be blamed on the method of recording. Some
- digital recordings (Chesky, Linn) sound excellent. Evaluating on sound
- terms does not an argument make because there will always be those which
- don't fit the scheme of things. Just that still, when all else is in tip
- top condition I will still go with the analogue until I hear the HDCD
- anyway. Then things may change. I hate the assumption that we are all
- completely against digital, we are just against poor sound quality.
-
- --
- Shane Sturrock, Biocomputing Research Unit, Darwin Building, Mayfield Road,
- University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Commonwealth of Independent Kingdoms. :-)
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