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In Reply to: So do I. posted by jbcortes on September 14, 2006 at 14:34:41:
The only way back to real music is to wake up the world that they have been sold a defective music carrier. It is an uphill battle but I am not giving up or giving in. And I will promote anyone who releases recordings from pure analog masters in any of the three main analog formats. Plus the upcoming laser read analog format from George Mann?We don't not have to give in to their inferior sounding Digital formats.
Music can even survive on lower resolution commercial duplicated cassettes but not on Digital, it looses its character and soul.
"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa
Follow Ups:
cassettes have poor freq response and they are analog. And dont bother quoting specs because you dont believe digital ones and I dont believe one's that say cassettes and phono carts go up to 40K
As by increasing resolution with longer word lengths or higher bit rates still does not get you the musicality of a well recorded cassette whose frequency response is measured at -20dB. A Nakamichi is flat from 20-20kHz at -20dB. At 0dB it only makes it to about 13kHz and many lesser decks only go to 9kHz at 0dB.Yet cassettes are more musical than Digital. There is something that digital is not capturing at any resolution that you can hear on LPs, Reel to Reels and even lowly cassettes. It is a “human” quality we hear in live music that is totally missing from Digital. Digital gets more realistic as resolution increases but it just misses taking you there.
Maybe it is time to try to improve digital sideways instead of up. Because up doesn't get you all the way there.
"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa
Look Teresa, 7 years ago I went into exactly the same phase, sold my CD player and all my CDs and only kept my Brinkmann turntable, and posted everywhere that CD sucked.
What happened at the end of the day? I couldn't get the music I wanted to, or only half of it. I gladly went back to CD two years after that, and realized how it had improved. I have some completly normal, non-audiophile CDs which sound as wonderful as vinyl. And if you think mathematics robs the music of its soul, one could say the same hearing clicks and pops in the middle of a Schubert quartet adagio, right when the strings die to silence.
It's all a question of perspective, try to keep some. Fighting for analogue is good, fighting against digital is ridiculous. Make your fight a positive one.
Best,
Jean-Baptiste
All of my money goes for LPs and 7 1/2-IPS Reel to Reel tapes.I can listen to SACD and DVD-Audio from 96kHz or higher PCM masters, DSD Masters, or analog masters. But why LPs and RTRs from Analog masters are still better. I do not like LPs from Digital masters or digitally remastered as it totally ruins the music. The Telarc Soundstream LPs are superficially OK, but they have a rolled off high end and dry bass. I will admit they have a lot of bass energy but so does Reference Recordings PURE Analog LPs.
Oh CDs actually cause me physical pain. It's not a choice of not wanting to listen to them, I am not able to listen to them.
"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa
Dave
Later Gator,
Crank up your talking machine, grab a jar of your favorite "kick-back", sit down, relax, and let the good times roll.The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa
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