On 01-12-07 06:12, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:15:55 +0100 > Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 30-11-07 17:55, Paolo Saggese wrote: >> >>> This may seem (and should be) an obvious statement... was it not for >>> the massive marketing hype trying (and often succeeding) to convince >>> everyone of the contrary. 8-) >>> >>> OK, we ended up quite OT... sorry. >> Hey, don't apologise, I'm enjoying these messages. I do absolutely need to >> comment on that last bit there though as all the hype I'm _ever_ hearing is >> quite the other way around -- how old analogue is so obviously better then >> anything coined in the last 30 years that not agreeing with such means your >> hearing just has to be markedly inferior. >> >> Accusing the digital side of hype is just a bit too much to take for someone >> who's had to suffer the vast amount of rabid nonsense some people without >> even a _beginning_ of clue about either digital or analogue technology will >> gladly spew while waving the bill from their audio equipment in the air. >> >> As in, bad environment to make _that_ particular argument I'm afraid ;-) > I don't know. > > However much I love analog world, there are facts I can't deny. > > Say, Janis Joplins' "Pearl" (1970 ?) sounds much worse that Judy Collins' > "Judy sings Dylan" (1997). > > Likewise, "Judy sings Dylan" sounds better than her "Judith" > (1975) - non-HDCD edition. > > Likewise, "Rolling Stones" "No Security" (1997) sounds much better than > their "Let it bleed" (1969). > > I'm saying that analog quality can be much poorer than digital one. I believe you may have misparsed me -- I absolutely agree. While I still sometimes enjoy a well recorded LP for example I'll generally take digital over analogue any day in fact. "Slow dynamics" is my favourite gripe with analogue. Regular CDs are not the be all end all (and certainly many recent ones with their ridicously high average dBFS and compressed range) but analogue technology tends to have approximately 10000 different points of failure on average against 10 for digital. The laws of chance then dictate how many times I will consider digital better... Rene. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
