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In Reply to: RE: You have left the subject posted by Sordidman on January 25, 2016 at 09:22:43
I don't fully agree. I don't think you can separate what happens at the recording stage and what happens during home playback completely. To me they are like Siamese twins, joined at the hip.The fact is, it is on topic as MQA purports to "correct" what "went wrong" at the A-D/recording stage. That is the very core of their mission statement.
Many, (sometimes unnecessary), aspects of pro audio have made their way into home playback...XLR connections, networking, active speakers etc...too many more to mention. Many of the best pro audio suppliers also make home hifi products..Manley, Meitner,Bryston, ATC, PMC, etc.
The point is, they are converging. Prism and Merging Tech are now introducing "audiophile" DACs. Many of your favorite recordings were archived to digital with their ADCs.
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But again, - the playback of digital files is still in it's infancy.No one has built a SOTA digital file player yet, (with the possible exception of Sonore). There is nothing in digital file playback that compares to the VRDS-NEO for digital discs.
We are still waiting for something that's going to be universally recognized as the SOTA standard that we had for Ed Meitner's products in the early 2000s.
There is so much work left to be done improving what is out there now, - I think that it's a bad idea to distract developers away from fixing and improving already questionable products, to pursuing a different format, - starting all over again with new hardware, - that (as history shows) will be improved over time, - once it is better understood what best brings out the files.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
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Of course digital file playback is not "perfect" in the sense it is not an exact replication of the original event, but then it never will be because there is not a single microphone on the planet that is totally transparent, and there is no recording medium currently that is.
The bottom line is there is no perfect media playback device and that goes for analog and digital.
But I am with you, that many other avenues should be pursued before DSP/software fixes..which to me are band aids.
When I see folks in the studio use a myriad of "plug ins" as opposed to doing the hard work and getting things to sound right organically it breaks my heart.
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