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RE: Many words have baggage attached

The speakers have indeed improved, across the board...... The measuring equipment has improved, the technologies in drivers, enclosures, materials....... I cannot argue that.

I contend that digital audio sources have gone sideways, if not regressed..... I don't hear much in non-CD sources (servers, high-rez, etc.) that enthrall me all that much..... Although I do think DACs for CD and CD quality playback have improved from a digital filter standpoint, mainly because designers have realized that asynchronous sample rate conversion (aka "24/192 upsampling") was a regressive "technology".....

I believe vinyl playback has improved, especially in regard to inexpensive turntables, cartridges, and phono stages..... The problem is the quality of recent vinyl recordings/pressings are too much "miss" and not enough "hit". (A lot of the better recent recordings, both analog and digital, seem to have a focus on "system compatibility" rather than ultimate fidelity and dynamic range.) I've seen more "birdbath" dish warps in LPs over the past year than all of what I've seen prior to the year 2010..... (It used to be a sight to behold, now it's a common occurrence.) Warps in LPs made me invest in a "Vinyl Flat" record flattener, and I use it all the time. (There is a learning curve to making this work, by the way.)

Overprocessing, Auto-Tune, and digital processing artifacts too often make it to recordings, often making audiophiles pull their hair out wondering why the sound isn't any better..... I'll never forget about 10 years ago, an audiophile acquaintance spent hours upon hours trying to fix midrange anomalies in his system, not realizing it was the Auto-Tune on some of his evaluation recordings that was causing the problem.

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