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RE: Compression is a very BAD thing......

but if you want to take it to the extreme - all life is digital - every single thing in our universe can be dwindled down to bits - on/off.

light/darkness
life/death
on/off
the brain is a series of switches - fires/doesn't fire (which is on/off).

There is a sort of artificiality to the sound of digital and based on the SACD that I have heard that technology sounds even worse that CD on an AN CD player.

The main issues for LP regardless of whether anyone likes it or not is surface noise and availability. Surface noise is a deal breaker for most people and there is a major lack of availability with new music after about 1990 - really low after 2000.

The AN CD player simply sounds better because it is the only design type that doesn't work like a high negative feedback Solid State amplifier - ie there is no processing and no filters to hack off ambient information above 20khz and no noise shaping smoothing or other rubbish that serves to steralize music.


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