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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: CD vs. LP again (was Re: Preamp and Amp)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.174004.11597@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1993Jan22.050702.7864@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:40:04 GMT
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- stuartw@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Stuart Woolford) writes:
- [....]
- : Tell me, people, what kind on channel seperation can ANY ( at ANY price )
- : practical LP system get ??. I will not mention the figures that I have
- : heard, but they are not impresive, and many 10's of db below that of
- : even quite cheap CD.
- :
- : A common method of 'widening' a sterio image is to add an amount of each
- : channel to the other, often phase shifted. SOME people seem to like the
- : effect ( it is normally found on VERY cheap tape decks.. ), but it
- : could not be considered even medium-fi.
- :
- : Perhaps you can see why I laugh when I read of people who find the 'sterio
- : image' of LP systems much more 'transparent' and 'detailed' than that
- : of CD.
-
- You can only laugh if a) you have heard a high quality turntable setup
- and b) still found its imaging to be 'laughable'. Numbers by
- themselves mean zilch.
-
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