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"If people really believed 'bits is bits'..." Error! Error! It isn't the "people" who believe that;

It's the "professionals" and "academics", who thus mislead us. The people don't know from squat.

You got that right about Joe Blow, however. Although, I do not share your cynical view vis-a-vis vinyl.

Minutes ago my attention was drawn to something I wrote years ago:

The Numbers Game

In a way really it was a blessing that early digital sound sucked. Without that impetus the enormous progress in audio during the past two decades might never have happened—or would have occurred more slowly. For out of that bleak, despairing era of expansionist digital hegemony, when any mitigation of its frozen-in-amber numerics seemed an impossibility, several realizations emerged that might otherwise have eluded us: The fine art of playback; the resurrected glory of the LP; the fallibility of audio "professionals" and academics; and our own susceptibility to delivered opinion.

clark



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