Re: Digital to Analog downloading Question ?

On Apr 9, 11:36 pm, bob <nabo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 6:36 pm, Sonnova <sonn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Except that it has never been proven that people with normal hearing
hear
> > music all that differently. Anyway, it doesn't really matter whether
it
> > sounds different to each of us. The point is that the sound of real,
live
> > music played in real space will always sound the same way to YOU.
>
> No, it doesn't. Live music sounds different to me, every time I hear
> it. I've heard the same instrument played by the same musician in five
> different halls. It never sounds quite the same. But perhaps my
> hearing perception is just more refined than most. :)
>
> bob

I am not sure you got the point - Not that one event will not sound
differently than another event, but that the way you hear things does
not change relative to Analog, Live, Digital, Recorded. And with the
normal variations of hearing due to health/diet/time-of-day/
temperature/mood aside, your hearing process does not change one day
to the next - and so may aptly be compared to others as a similar
relatively invariable process.

Your ears are hard-wired devices. What they hear is not. I think that
is the point - Steven?

Again, what with the recent discussions on the transition to Digital
OTA television and the attendant problems, that would serve as an
excellent analogy to the discussion here. Digital signal does fine
until it does not - it drops right off the cliff. Analog signal
degrades in a more-or-less linear fa****on. Depending on one's
individual tolerance for additional artifacts, ghosting, snow,
shadows, color distortion and so forth it is more-or-less acceptable
but the basic information does get through.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA