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| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Learsfool, I would just take issue with a couple of your points, if I may ..."objection is ... the process of digital recording and processing, and what it does to the sound in the first place, long before anyone's playback": as the only way to kn... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Couple of quick comments:As has already been mentioned once (and probably more, I didn't check) better systems don't come as a straightforward plug and play; instead there are myriads of if's and but's that (the salesman claims) are necessary to m... | |
| How close to the real thing? Sorry Weseixas, re ".. can follow along ...". My earlier comment was just firstly agreeing with Kirkus that a lot of people have had special listening moments without it quite making sense why, and secondly, that my answer is to be fussy, fussy, f... | |
| How close to the real thing? Atmasphere, unfortunately the way you present the concept of feedback with the term "propagation delay" helps to 'propagate' (sorry, couldn't help it ... :-) ) a misconception about negative feedback. Yes, "negative feedback is always lagging behi... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Learsfool, thanks for the thoughtful response. Unfortunately, however, your guess was wrong -- I am particularly interested in achieving the results I mentioned in the very areas that concern you, "the human voice, or other acoustic instruments, s... | |
| How close to the real thing? Kirkus, thank you: your statements, "it takes just ONE instance of having experienced reproduced sound as being real" and "been dumbfounded by amazing experiences from really crappy stuff, and also underwhelmed by my experiences with some really b... | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals Faces doing "Memphis, Tennessee"Slade again: Joplin's "Move Over", gets me every time; and "Let The Good Times Roll" - the latter is not quite legit because it is a combo song, but if this doesn't get you bouncing around the room then something's ... | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals Slade's live version of John Sebastian's "Darling Be Home Soon" | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Drubin, this is where it gets tricky ...Things that are part of the mix:* Everything I have tried or fiddled with has already been mentioned by someone already, and usually many others have to some degree taken them up. The hints are there already... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Aplhifi, see again my earlier response. Yes, it it easier to "reproduce the soul" on vinyl, but only because it tolerates more sloppiness in the setup! You have to be more precise, more careful with digital, and a lot of the industry apparently st... | |
| How close to the real thing? Irvrobinson, I would agree with you about those distortion levels, but certainly would not blame the speakers directly. I would suggest rather that the combination of equipment and setup is allowing other distortion mechanisms to intrude, into the... | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Another interesting, VERY long term conversation. My own experiences match the OP, in that I did jump ship (mixing metaphors!) for about 15 years (phew!!).But, I have learnt, and the big learning is, "everything matters". So trite, so obvious, but... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Niacin, ... hear, hear!I would just make the comment that what you call synergy I have found to be that combination which minimises the level of unpleasant, low level or "micro", distortion. Many people, as you say, don't seem to realise that that... | |
| How close to the real thing? Weseixas, Timlub, thanks for your reaction and comments to Atmasphere and Mapman, they are coming from very close to what my take on the situation is.What I hope to inject into this conversation is something that for me has been very intriguing an... | |
| How close to the real thing? Mapman, -- "not all distortion is necessarily unpleasant" , I agree with your comments 100%. And, there is definitely "nice" distortion, which is quite easy to do, and is a perfectly valid way of obtaining listening pleasure. One of my earliest hi... |