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RE: Restoring "Removed" Harmonics.....

What they "restore" may or may not correspond to the missing harmonics. Different instruments have different amounts of high frequency distortion but after the ADC filters out this information there will be nothing left for the DAC to work with. For example, what is a DAC supposed to do with an 8 kHz sine wave? Was the musical instrument really like a sine wave, or was it more like an 8 Khz square wave? The audio file will be identical for both of these sounds, so if the DAC "improves" the square wave by adding in the clipping, it was harm the sine wave.

If people value "analog" like distortion, then perhaps they need to go unamplified live acoustic concerts. This sets the standard for good sound and it does not sound "analog" or "digitial". It sounds like music.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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