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In Reply to: RE: CD players going the way of the 8 track posted by Dawnrazor on June 19, 2012 at 14:57:29
> You give me hope because you are old (so your moniker says)
> and you get it! Old is just a word by the way...
I doubt that I'm proof.
I took the screen name "Old Listener" because "Listener" was taken on AA. I am getting senior discounts but not for that long.
I first worked on recording and playing back audio about 1980. I wrote Windows kernel level s/w (drivers and other stuff) for audio and video in the late 90s. I knew then that I was going to computer based audio when hard drive capacities got big enough and prices low enough. (I had decided on using lossless formats rather than lossy formats. That delayed my start.)
I could transfer what I knew about user interfaces and relational databases to analyzing the functionality and operation that I wanted. By late 2005, hard drives were marginally adequate, I knew what I wanted from a system and I was ready to do my consumer research on available hardware and software and get started.
I don't think that my experience would be that typical of most "old" audiophiles coming to computer audio.
Bill
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Hi Bill,
Yeah I know your experiences are vastly different than most in regards to computer audio.
But I can be hopeful right??
If you can see the benefits then maybe your generation is not a total write off.
I still think if I could snap my fingers and put a computer based system in every inmates system that most would see the benefits and switch. No if we could just remove the barriers to good sound from a computer I think I could go back to listening :)
This is really like those pictures at the mall where you stare at them long enough and the picture changes. And once you see the new picture you can readily see it again.
Sadly alot of inmates havent seen the picture change like you have.
Afterwards we discovered faith; it's all you need
> If you can see the benefits then maybe your generation is not
> a total write off.
rick_m and Tony might give you hope too.
> I still think if I could snap my fingers and put a computer based system
> in every inmates system that most would see the benefits and switch.
Maybe. You've gotten a response or two that indicates that some people would be very uncomfortable.
Bill
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