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Re: This is to Phil Tower and whoever else cares....

That's an interesting perspective, Mike. Dr. Toole's work gets sited by folks quite often, yet was directed in a different area and for a different purposes. I'm also aware of the work being done on codecs as jj used to do a lot that at AT&T. The problem for general audio is that it's extremely expensive and has no real obvious return on investment.

Compression schemes for trans-Atlantic phone calls and cell phones and so forth have an obvious benefit. The research is to come up with schemes that are acceptable and not noticeable in general. The point is not to produce a perfect signal as much as to produce the most compression without a noticeable loss. It's quite different.

Anyway, for cables, doing this type of research is too expensive and likely of little benefit to the manufacturer. It's like the old Pepsi vs Coke commercials. People don't buy taste tests anymore. On top of that, it can be extremely system dependent and preference oriented.

Besides, for the masses buying $200 receivers and $50 speakers, come on, these folks won't even spring for the $20 Monster cables.



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