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- From: myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:09:04 GMT
- Subject: Re: Comments on analog music
- Message-ID: <7490281@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- >Therefore my conclusion is that the new CD players have improved VERY MUCH
- >over the old ones, which of course also let's me believe that the old players
- >were B-A-D, and that the 'pure perfect sound forever' marketing hype was
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >pure BS. And no, it didn't take this long for me to find that out, but the fact
- ^^^^^^^
- >that new players seem better is just another evidence.
-
- But Sture, that's NOT what your evidence means at all - if you are now getting
- greatly improved sound from the newer players, but *with the same recording
- format* as before (i.e., the 44.1 kHz CD standard), then there is no reason
- to suspect the "pure perfect sound forever" claim. (Actually, I myself would
- never make this claim in such absolute terms as "pure" and "perfect", but
- you get the idea.) All you have shown is that the faults you heard before
- were NOT in the notion of digital recording, but in the particular player
- auditioned (and likely in the analog sections of said player), which is all
- the "pro-digital" camp has been saying all along!
-
-
- Bob Myers | "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but
- myers@fc.hp.com | most of the time he will pick himself up and continue."
- | - Winston Churchill
-