In Reply to: RE: The problem is the obsolete CD format, not digital. posted by John Elison on September 5, 2015 at 21:41:31:
Todd has said that he (or his system) is sensitive to RF noise created by digital. Such noise was probably present in the output of the Soundstream recorder, but was removed by the LP production/playback process.Claims that a product or process is transparent, especially claims in regard to a commercial product, are suspect. All that can be said is that at one particular point in time one particular set of people were unable to hear a difference on the particular equipment used. This may have been true, but it is entirely possible that the same equipment used today by different listeners trained to hear digital artifacts might find a lack of transparency. Indeed, given a 50/16 PCM format this is likely, albeit less so than 44/16. At the time the Soundstream Telarc records were being released there were a number of audiophiles who were actively opposed to these digital records, among them Clark Johnsen, who organized a public demonstration, the "Digital D party" held in Boston.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: The problem is the obsolete CD format, not digital. - Tony Lauck 09/6/1507:33:23 09/6/15 (8)
- RE: The problem is the obsolete CD format, not digital. - ahendler 18:36:14 09/7/15 (0)
- "Claims that a product or process is transparent. . . are suspect" - Chris from Lafayette 10:02:31 09/6/15 (1)
- RE: "Claims that a product or process is transparent. . . are suspect" - ahendler 18:40:43 09/7/15 (0)
- RE: The problem is the obsolete CD format, not digital. - John Elison 08:48:02 09/6/15 (4)
- RF output from DACs is real. - Tony Lauck 10:22:02 09/6/15 (3)
- RE: RF output from DACs is real. - ahendler 18:45:43 09/7/15 (0)
- RE: RF output from DACs is real. - John Elison 10:53:10 09/6/15 (0)
- DAC Design Engineering - HiFiOd 10:52:28 09/6/15 (0)