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- From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
- Subject: Re: Comments on analog music
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.203055.29254@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- References: <1jmercINNg4g@transfer.stratus.com> <24678@alice.att.com> <1k10heINNju6@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:30:55 GMT
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- In article <1k10heINNju6@transfer.stratus.com> rsud@sw.stratus.com (Rajiv Sud) writes:
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- > Distortions from a turntable are generally euphonic and it
- >is (you'll love this part) a measured fact that better turntable
- >designs minimize these distortions. Ascending to better turntable
- >designs (ones with measured reduced distortions) resulting in better
- >sound would seem to put a bit of a hole in your "analogue is liked
- >because its distorted" theory.
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- No, it just means that the optimal level of such distortions is somewhere
- between zero and the amount that cheap turntables add. More is not
- necessarily better.
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- There may also be non-euphonic components to the distortion which good
- turntables reduce somewhat.
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- > In digital much of the distortion is in the signal itself.
- >Some of these distortions have been identified after "prefect sound
- >forever" was unleashed. Gain riding is one example. Jitter, known
- >about for some time, but now getting lots of attention is another.
-
- Why do you discount the use of measurements completely (we don't measure
- hamburgers, so why audio?), and then use measurements to make your case
- against digital? Worse yet, there is a large body of evidence correlating
- analog distortions with perceived differences in sound quality, and no
- evidence which correlates jitter with any perceived differences.
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- Steve Kanefsky
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