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In Reply to: Re: Analog -to- 24/96 PCM -to- analog is transparent to human hearing posted by longtimequadowner on February 6, 2007 at 18:09:33:
Not that, in practice, AD-DA is actually totally in audible, but that the net result can yield a net benefit. Also, that vinyl still sounds like vinyl, which tends to put the lie to the notion that analog technology is inherently superior and that digital cannot sound good by comparison.Bill Bailey
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. . . when good enough is good enough.
Nothing wrong with that I guess (???)
Bill Bailey
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I actually understand the intent of your original post. Converting into and out of digital is good enough for your needs, and so you deem it transparent. My response to that is, if you can ignore the conversion process then you can draw a straight line between the two points of A/D and D/A. If you can't hear the difference or the difference is so trivial then go with it. I would say that is more of a practical view than a purist one.As far as answering the question "is it transparent?", then my answer is a definite no. It doesn't mean that it is bad, it just means that it is not transparent.
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