Sorry, but for the most part I disaggree with you. If you put together a really high end system you will discover that the overall quality of most recordings is astonishingly high, it's just you need a really good ( unfortuneately expensive ) system to hear them. I am not saying all recordings are created equal, they are not, but the quality range of the recordings is actually from excellent to incredible. Not from poor to excellent. I used to think the same as you but now I know after hearing what is on the records, it is way better than you can imagine actually. JCO
-----Original Message----- From: Markus Maurer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 7:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT:Digital versus analog recordings Hi Gonz I think the real problem is elsewhere. I own some very good analog and digital recorded music, for example the CD sampler "Hearts of Space" from "The absolute sound". I have some excellent LP's from MFSL and Sheffield Labs and others too, quite a collection. But most of the music you can buy is (sadly) miserably recorded because nobody cares! I know some musicians and guess, they have the cheapest listening equipment (Ghetto blasters!) at home. Most of them don't hear a lot anymore (maybe 12KHz), that's also true for most of the DJ's and Mixers and "Tonmeister" I see here because they never protect their ears, that's uncool.... Most of them have some sort of "Tinnitus", so how could they judge the quality of their recordings. I really feel pain most of the time I go to the cinema or in a discotheque, it's always much to loud and the DJ's are able to make the finest Elektrovoice loudspeakers sound awful. I met a friend lately which collects CD's and LP's and brought him a CDR copy of a rare CD of Eddie Harris "plays the blues" which he asked for a long time ago. He had a pair of nice BOSE 901 speakers driven by a Harman Kardon Amp, usually *quite* a nice setup at home. But, 16 of the 18 speakers where defective and the Bose stand on the floor next to the wall, he did not even here that. He told me, that he did not use the supplied and absolutely needed BOSE Equalizer for a long time too... Eric Clapton's LP's are mostly awful sounding, just listen to "Cocaine" for example :-) I do not know many artists like Frank Zappa, Chesky, Alan Parson or even Michael Jackson to name some who care about the sound quality of their recordings or have the power or possibility to control it. And since most of *the good* music has already been recorded Imho , who cares how today's "Superstars" and Boy- and Girl groups" (crap)sound anyway, good enough on MP3 :-) But, do yourself a favor and get that "Absolute Sound recording", you will be pleased :-) greetings Markus > -----Original Message----- > From: Gonz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 35 vs digi - Some points to ponder. > > > noise at the A/D and D/A boundaries. So if you optimize that, the > best DIGITAL is going to be better than the best ANALOG, rg >
