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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!kanefsky
- From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
- Subject: Re: CD vs. LP again (was Re: Preamp and Amp)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.010539.14993@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
- References: <1993Jan19.221047.7313@bnr.ca> <7490282@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <1k6jrnINNqf5@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 01:05:39 GMT
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- In article <1k6jrnINNqf5@transfer.stratus.com> rsud@sw.stratus.com (Rajiv Sud) writes:
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- >In article <7490282@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes:
- >>
- >> Rajiv, given that the CD format has been stable for 10 years, how is it
- >> that "digital" is getting better? I could see making a claim that the
- >> analog electronics built into a given line of CD players has improved, or
- >> that we've seen other improvements in factors outside the format itself
- >> (equalizations for CD rather than LP, for example) - this is in no way
- >> "digital" getting better, since all the "digital" portions have remained
- >> unchanged.
- >>
- >>
- > Yes the format, i.e., sampling rate, has not changed. There's a world
- >of difference between the cd players of the early eighties and the current
- >top of the heap designs. And this is in the digital domain (DAC's). Perhaps
- >you are making a joke of my use of the word "digital" to catagorize all
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- What do you think the "A" in DAC stands for?
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- No one will argue that different DAC's can sound different, since they
- are, after all, producing an analog output. That would be like saying
- that all speakers must sound the same given the same input from a power
- amp, or that all people must sound the same when they read the same book
- aloud.
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- Steve Kanefsky
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