On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 16:33 -0400, ron thigpen wrote: > Apologies if I've attributed certain concepts or beliefs to you that you > don't in fact hold. Perhaps I've misunderstood you.
No problem. I think you have me confused with others. > It's just that I seem to hear a lot of ideas tossed around that > basically boil down to "it's digital, so it's perfect, right?". Again, not said by me. This is the line of BS that the XM and Sirius folks say, its digital, so it has to be just like CD. Ah, no, not at the data rates that they send. Of course, in a car, Red Book is overkill. Even my Lincoln has 65 or 70 dB of road noise at speed. > Of course, being able to perfectly record, reproduce and replay a stream > of bits does not mean that the original bitstream fully encoded the > acoustic phenomenon in the source environment, or that we have the means > to fully recreate these phenomenon by replaying this bitstream at a > later date. High rate and wider than 16 bit bitstreams are much closer, but DVD-audio and SACD are dead. Too bad. Of course the main reason the labels wanted it was the mistaken belief that the new formats were copy protected. And to sell me a third or fourth copy of Led Zeppelin IV -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
