In Reply to: Analog -to- 24/96 PCM -to- analog is transparent to human hearing posted by Feanor on February 6, 2007 at 07:32:51:
Not one professional I know who actually works with digital audio on a day to day basis would ever say that, or agree with it.Even more amazing, not one of the serious pro companies that make ADC's or DAC's say's that their products are sonically "perfect". They know better than to make the claim to all those pro's I mentioned above.
There is a penalty to go into the digital domain from the analog, and back again, and it is not necessarily trivial.
Now, suppose we postulated both the ADC and the DAC were literally SOTA, the best there is right now. Yes, you would be hard pressed to hear them in a signal chain using pre-recorded analog music as the source, but with a live signal, they are still detectable.
As for the typical mid-fi (and I include all those devices you cite in that category, because none of them is even remotely capable of true SOTA performance), forgetaboutit.
BTW, "good enough" don't cut it. :-)
Jon Risch
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- Living Under a Rock, or a Troll? - Jon Risch 19:19:19 02/06/07 (6)
- Re: Living Under a Rock, or a Troll? - TomLarson 20:05:36 02/07/07 (3)
- Serious answer - Jon Risch 17:16:58 02/16/07 (1)
- Re: Serious answer - TomLarson 16:29:33 02/18/07 (0)
- Re: Living Under a Rock, or a Troll? - Vince S 02:54:20 02/09/07 (0)
- an idea - ontrack2@gmail.com 12:38:48 02/07/07 (0)
- Mid-fi ... hummm!!? - Feanor 10:12:37 02/07/07 (0)