Re: Digital to Analog downloading Question ?

bob <nabob33@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 8, 6:15 pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Actually, I doubt that the OP meant ANY of the negative analog
"artifacts"  
> > that you mentioned. When one listens THROUGH or AROUND those things
there is
> > a certain "alive" character to analog that many people prefer. And who
is to
> > say that their preferences are wrong? Wrong for you, maybe . Wrong for
many
> > people, I'm sure.

> Agreed, absolutely.

But you aren't listening 'through and around' them.  What you are liking
is THEIR effects on the recording.

> > If one gets down to absolutes, there is only one absolute
> > "right" and that is the sound of real acoustic music played in real
space.

> My sense of what "real acoustic music played in real space" sounds
> like is based on my experiences of it, which are very different from
> your experiences of it. So this is hardly an absolute at all.

> > The only thing that I find destructive to the sound of real music is
lossy
> > compression.

> Seriously, you find that more destructive than, say, multiple
> generations of analog tape? (I'll leave vinyl out of this discussion.)
> I'd say you have a very odd notion of "the sound of real music," then.

I';d say he hasn't done any blind comparisons of good lossy encodings,
to their lossless counterparts.

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