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In Reply to: "Who's right, ahhh, the engineers of course. *They know it all.*" posted by clarkjohnsen on February 8, 2007 at 14:28:34:
I haven't heard much about that savior of cd audio in a while.
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To rid the glare demons from CD's, but this one I missed. I really must read some more of CJ's articles. They are hysterical, the desperate plea for psychiatric intervention notwithstanding.cheers,
AJ
I contend that we are both atheists; I just believe in one fewer god than you. When you understand why you reject all other gods, you will understand why I reject yours
And BTW, in case anybody is wondering, Clark is just trying to up the hit count of the linked page. Hit counters don't care if the person's view is positive or negative.
...what I do enjoy doing is eliciting irrational and supercilious (and if I'm lucky, foulmouthed) responses such as vettracer's. Unable to confront the issues, these sorts indulge themselves instead in ad hominem ineffective invective.It's like watching very young children in a playpen, amusing for a while, but then one goes off to be among the grown-ups.
Kinda like looking in the mirror Clark?Come on, you can try and paint a picture that us engineers are all naysayers and we discount anything we can't explain, but that really is not true. Any engineer worth his pay understands that measurements and calculations do not tell all and there is quite a bit of art in what we do.
On the other hand if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, smells like a duck, looks like a duck, and has feathers, it is more likely a duck than not.
That said, you wrote at least two editorials and many more posts extoling the virtues of the Reality Check CD duplicator. 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? Do you still use it and recommend it to others?
"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.
"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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