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In Reply to: RE: New Absolute Sound guest editorial by Jonathan Valin posted by ecl876 on March 10, 2017 at 19:12:05
While I share his preference for vinyl playback i have to say that what he said about digital here.... "No matter what the bit rate, no matter what the digital delivery system, you simply cannot "sample" the continuous-time sound of instruments or vocalists, turn it into discrete -time numbers, and then turn those back into instruments or vocalists without losing some of the very continuousness of presentation--the dense, constantly renewing, uninterrupted flow of articulation, dynamics and timbres--that is the very breath of musical life." Is complete B.S. Digital recording and playback is quite capable of complete audible transparency.
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. . . makes me think that he must have persuaded himself that he's hearing stair-steps in the sound waves, per the misleading explanatory graphics we used to see in the magazines when digital first came out. (See link below.) The effect of psychology on our listening (mine too!) is a powerful factor and is very much underappreciated in our whole listening experience!
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