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RE: Stereophile: Computer Audio Without Computers

I couldn't agree more.

Most of the small differences that I hear are minute compared to changes that I make to the recordings that I restore and remaster. In many cases these small differences are unrelated to realism or artistic merit. Sometimes they are differences in distortion and it's clear that both versions are unsatisfactory.

Worrying about these differences as a consumer strikes me as beyond idiotic. Some of these differences might matter to equipment designers or recording engineers, since the time spent chasing after small improvements can be amortized over multiple units. A consumer will better served by saving his money to buy more and better recordings and saving his time to listen to these recordings.

Of course it is possible that people are hearing bigger differences than I am. Perhaps it's because they worry too much and fiddle with too much equipment rather than taking the time to set up what they have in the most effective possible way.



Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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