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In Reply to: Now you're running on premium! posted by clarkjohnsen on June 6, 2008 at 08:00:12:
Hi Clark
Perfect sound forever, this is good for you, we are the government and we are here to help you, vote for me because I am always right and I never lie. Brought to you by the George L Tirebite’r for President campaign “Change, who cares what directionâ€
I try not to be involved with “marketing†which to me seems to have become partly a euphemism for “saying what ever is needed to get the money†except to recognize it.
In home audio, not being a life safety issue and not being easy to quantify, that “lying to you†approach has been used for some time with minimal legal hassles (except for the “peak power “ days of marketing insanity)
If it were shorting the weight of something (which is easily quantified) or measuring Watts then it is easier to say, BS .
AS for the question “What makes the CD sound inferior?â€
I would ask a filter question or two.
Have you ever heard a CD that sounded horrid?
Have you ever heard a CD that sounded bad.
Have you ever heard one that sounded just OK?
Have you ever heard one that sounded decent?
Have you ever heard one that sounded pretty good ?
Have you ever heard one that sounded very good?
Have you ever heard even a second of anything on a CD that sounded amazingly good?
At each level you say “yesâ€, one is also saying that for the layers above, the limiting thing is not the storage medium but what was put on it.
So, I can’t answer “why a CD sounds bad†compared to a record, I could cite what the boundaries or limitations are but that isn’t sound.
What I have to go on is recording and playing back the original recordings that I experienced first hand and having an idea about how Tape vs 16/44 vs 24/96 stacks up when used that way.
This is pretty far from comparing a commercial CD and a commercial record I admit but is directly related to what the recording mediums can do.
I mentioned I fool around recording still and for me “stereo†has been my grail so to speak, same with speakers I guess.
I would like to e-mail you a sample of a “digital recording†in CD format, and have you listen to it with good headphones first and then your system. I would be curious what you thought of the sound. I think these will go on the web site when ever they are done messing with it.
I have a friend John who’s family is in an Irish folk music organization. On his son’s birthday, he had a small BBQ and a group of the kids from the heritage center put on a very informal musical performance. I asked John if I could drag the experimental microphone thing over and record and he said sure.
Understand, I set the mic array up and hit record period, there is noise from the people eating and talking but, for me that makes it like it really was.
Anyway, I’ll send you a snip return e-mail if you e-mail me. DanleylabsNOSPAM@comcast.net
Remove no spam
Best,
Tom Danley
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Follow Ups
- RE: Now you're running on premium! - tomservo 06/6/0813:30:13 06/6/08 (2)
- I understand your logic, but there's a hitch. Or two. - clarkjohnsen 09:16:29 06/7/08 (1)
- RE: I understand your logic, but there's a hitch. Or two. - tomservo 11:31:47 06/7/08 (0)
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