last_lemming, the irony is it wasn’t even your generalization. 😬
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Elizabeth, yes, I listen to portable CD and cassette players. I see you were able to decipher my comment.
An ordinary man has no means of deliverance.
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last_lemming
Y’all need to listen to Peter’s (Soundsmith) latest talk at 2018 RMAF. He says even analog is digital and it appears to be true.
>>>>Well, you could also say that digital is to a large degree analog.
last_lemming
Now compare that to my brother, a NASA rocket engineer who desires efficient, exact design with minimal error, what do you think he listens to?
>>>>I’m a NASA rocket engineer and listen mostly to analog. Go figure. 🚀 |
Exhibit A - digitally remastered cassettes. The best of both worlds? High dynamic range and low noise without all the digitalis produced by the digital playback system. The digitally remastered cassette demonstrates that it’s not (rpt not) necessarily the digital medium per se that’s the problem, but the CD playback system. Tape is a natural medium. It breathes.
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I’m not surprised. They missed the boat on scattered background laser light. They missed the boat on deciding to use polycarbonate for the clear layer as it’s transparency is only 92%. They missed the boat on making sure the physical CDs were completely round. They missed the boat that CDs are susceptible to static electric charge and magnetic fields. They also missed the boat that the spring system supporting the laser is susceptible to seismic vibration. But all things considered, CDs worked and they were convenient. 😛 They weren’t audiophiles, they were a technical standards committee. |
New formats I.e., digital audio/video standards brought higher resolution, for example DVD and SACD. Higher sampling rates and longer bit words. Then along came Blu Ray with its much smaller nanoscale laser beam width allowing even greater bits/sampling rate. And discs could by then be fabricated with correspondingly greater data density per disc. By the way the Blu Ray laser technically isn’t blue. Also, ironically, higher but rates and or sampling rates apparently don’t necessarily equate to better sound. OMG!
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Question - How did Sony management in the early 80s judge or determine who can hear what? Did they have a bevy of audiophiles on staff? I suspect it’s more likely the Redbook CD committee decided on 16/44 based on technical considerations and constraints only.
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Actually you can find an explanation somewhere for whatever you want. Analog is more accurate than digital, digital is more accurate than analog. What have you. But this all overlooks the many serious problems in digital playback systems, not to mention the horrendous dynamic range compression that has been going on for the last twenty years. Maybe things will be different some day. Sigh! |
Digital is like the fresh raw porterhouse steak in the movie The Fly that Jeff Goldblum teleported from one pod to the other. When the atoms of the steak were disassembled and then reassembled the porterhouse steak looked still like a real steak but when it was broiled and tasted it didn’t taste like a real steak 🥩. Yuk! |
I think Hitler would have been fine with Joni Mitchell or John Prine.
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“There is something more relaxing about playing records, probably related to a mind set of committing to sitting down and listening to 15+ minutes of music at a time without having the easy option of giving up on a piece with the push of a button.”
>>>>Or it could be just because you don’t feel like you’re being attacking by screaming banshees and razor blades in an elevator.
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One wonders where we’d be if Hitler had been very fond of rock music instead of opera? 😳
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But what controls the brain? That’s where things start to fall apart.
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Well, that would certainly explain the attitude. 🤗 |
I’m pretty sure it was his slight but unrecognizable accent, superior attitude and robot like cadence of speech that convinced me.
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