On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>CFLs make my > eyes hurt and make everything less vibrant looking. I'm going to guess this > is because they are only lighting up small portions of the spectrum of > visible light, but this is just a guess. I think it is because many people perceive the 120 hz flicker in the ionized gas as zero current flows. You don't see this in incandescents because the filament is not as responsive. > I'm reminded of Neil Young's > explanation for why he thought that CDs didn't sound as good as records -- > something along the lines of being able to hear the skips in the binary > encoding of the CD as the laser was passing over. I had a professor who ranted against solid state audio amplifiers. He claimed they made the music sound muddy passing through a solid and could not compete with the crystal clear music passing through a vacuum. Actually there is an explanation for vinyl sounding different. There is a phase smearing which occurs in the differentiation of the needle motion which is not present in PCM encoding of audio signals. People explain it as vinyl sounding "warmer".
