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In Reply to: "Unable to confront the issues, these sorts indulge themselves instead in ad hominem ineffective invective" posted by vettracer on February 10, 2007 at 11:56:26:
"Come on, you can try and paint a picture that us engineers are all naysayers and..." First, I was not the painter, Dave Clark was; you should read the text more carefully. Second, I'm an engineer too, of optical systems and audio (a Lifetime Member of the AES in fact), so let's just say I speak from the belly of the beast.Then: To my short list of charges I should have added implacable irrationality, viz:
"Does the fact that it turned out to be nothing more than just a cd duplicator change your opinion of its effect on your cd's?" First, the Reality Check device always was, now is, and forever more shall be, a (standalone) CD duplicator; that was never in question, so the writer's implication here is irrational. Second, why should anything change my opinion of the sonic results? They were, are, and forevermore shall be exactly as stated.
"Do you still use it and recommend it to others?" Of course I do. Geez Luiz! The one I use, is the one I bought. The one I now recommend is different, the original being no longer on the market.
Follow Ups:
"First, the Reality Check device always was, now is, and forever more shall be, a (standalone) CD duplicator; that was never in question, so the writer's implication here is irrational."Sorry Clark, Your previous writings described the Reality Check firmware as key to the results. From Positive Feedback issue 21;
"The idea is to align all the transient overtones of each note to fall together in time, as they naturally do in analog but not (for some reason) in digital. The principle element of his software algorithm addresses that problem. And indeed, what one hears is sharper transients. Jitter and error correction are addressed by him too, but secondarily."
That description seems like more than just a standalone duplicator.
I don't disagree with you that CDR's can make surprising improvments to commercial cd's, but that is due more to the poor manufacturing quality of cd's than some special Reality Check firmware realigning the transient overtones.
...I made the point, and often, that this was not a computer-attached item; that in fact, that was part of its benefit. The frimware was (obviously) applied to the duplicator.I can imagine no more willful a misrepresentation of my articles, than yours.
clark
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