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In Reply to: Re: Doesn't it all come down to this: No one knows exactly... posted by TomLarson on February 10, 2007 at 20:00:55:
...knew enough about records to invent them, and about television to invent it, and... and...Would you argue that engineered inventions are all, or mostly, perfect right out of the gate, as digital was (we were told) "perfect"?
If so... huh!
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OK, this is my third and last try to respond to this post. The first two attempts (mysteriously not-posted) were brilliant essays on the subject, breaking new ground and sure to have astonished everyone. But memory being what it is, all I can say is, no, I don't think inventions are perfect from the word go. But the tenor of many, many posts here, especially regarding digital, seems to me to be one of utter dismissal of the original invention...cd's in this case. And that's where my gripe is....(Like I said the posts that didn't make it were much richer with insight and argument).
Somewhere around fifteen years ago I discovered CD "degaussing", and it's gotten better ever since. Nor was I loathe to admit, I had been wrong about blaming 16/44 PCM. Lots of the usual suspects jumped on me with their Aha! moment, but the fact remained, I told them, that without ameliorization CDs still sound like crap. Then perhaps five years ago I discovered that a well-treated CD sounds as good as, or better than, the equivalent SACD. Well!That said, most of the vocal supporters of the medium have settled for the shrill, edgy sound they somehow have come to enjoy, and therefore defend 16/44 PCM to the end. They are completely wrongheaded.
Thanks Clark for your clarification. Regards, Tom...
Hey Tom,Perhaps the problem is that the potential of the inventiion was hijacked by commercial interests that contradicted that very potential....(16/44.1?)
...about how carefully the Compact Disc Group (remember them?) managed their strategy.
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