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In Reply to: RE: When Was The Last You Attended A Live Performance?... posted by Todd Krieger on April 27, 2009 at 23:33:38
That 'cause you use toslink and won't upsample. My digital rivals vunyl, but I only do hirez and reject questionable downloads.
SACD is very more 'natural' and not as 'digital' as pcm.
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Fred,
In the same vein that you deride Todd for Toslink, I say the same to you:
You will never have the best results you can unless you dedicate your machine to audio! Just like using toslink.
Get a backup disk and do the cmp2 OS mods. YOu already have most of the hardware ones but do the usb mod if you havent and dont use a wired mouse.
"My digital rivals vunyl, but I only do hirez and reject questionable downloads."
Glad you like it......
I've listened to sources/systems owned by people who've had such thought, and all I perceived was more of the same...... I've just never listened to any digital source that to me was *totally* devoid of artifacts in the way a live performance is...... Even with sources that have had claims to have been perceived that way.
one can enjoy digital music reproduction as long as one does not listen to analogue.
Truer words were never spoken.
You can listen to digital systems evolve and think, "we are making progress now". Then, in my case, I get my turntable back in service and I really want there to be equality, turntables are a pain in many ways, analogue is noisy, and yet when the music begins there is no doubt something very big is missing. The music envelopes you and fills your room not that I was getting "beamy" sound from the digital set-up but there is no comparison to what happens with the LP.
There is a strange tonal balance anomaly which has nothing to do with measured frequency response. There must be something going wrong dynamically. I know I am not saying anything that hasn't been said a thousand times.
Oy ve,
"one can enjoy digital music reproduction as long as one does not listen to analogue"
And how does he explain all those classical concert goers, who return from the concert hall how to listen to their favourite performers on ipods and digital radio. Analogue must be better than live then, isn't it?
Music making the painting, recording it the photograph
No matter how fine the mince is (pun intended), there's a continuity and contiguity to the sound of analogue that simply 'makes sense'.
big j
"...only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms ."
in the most obvious ways of S/N ratio and dynamic range and overall definition. Yet good vinyl just has that magical ease to it that is not something I hear in a live performance. I just like it better than digital.
All true. I'm fully aware of the trendy prejudices I was peddling. Added to which I'm of the camp that believes the constant live music comparisons a simplistic, snobbish red-herring that doesn't truly reflect the full range of ways we experience music - certainly not mine. To wit, one of my favourite genres is the soundtrack filmscore. You see my instant dilemma, should I choose to indulge it.
These days, however, I'm happy to have any time for music at all - any way it comes.
big j
"...only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms ."
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