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Analogue adored Digital deplored

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1994-02-04 13:21ma93ben Analogue adored Digital deplored
1994-02-04 15:23Lazlo Nibble Analogue adored Digital deplored
1994-02-05 13:05JOHAN BURMAN ELD92 Re: Analogue adored Digital deplored
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1994-02-04 13:21ma93benFirstly: Although the maximum range of human hearing is indeed 20kHz, Ted Shab is right in
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Firstly: Although the maximum range of human hearing is indeed 20kHz, Ted Shab is right in saying that the brain responds differently to digital sound than to analogue. This is because we can actually sense high-pitched sounds although we cannot consciously hear them... Secondly: The point about a lot of records being produced using digital effects units is valid, but what I am saying is that if analogue technology had been advancing over the last 15 years or so then there would be decent analogue effects units. This would help sustain analogue formats, but unfortunately analogue technology has not been improved because the multi-national corporations who control the formats have been busy inventing new digital formats to wow the consumers. Thirdly: It is possible at the moment to get better quality from vinyl than it is from CD using a laser stylus. True, this is expensive, but so is all embryonic technology. If work was done on it, the price would come down.than jpojon Fourthly: [this editor is playing up] Maybe we are less digital-mad here t than you are in the US because we can still get vinyl in big stores like Towe r and HMV and Virgin. Also my Plastikman album has the sheet of tabs. I believ believe that there were 200 tabs with the first run of Sheet one. The people at my local record store opened them all up and licked them all. I hate this editor! It`s not my fault... Gotta go before it really gets out of hand... Bye! From Brendan Nelson. I hate this editor! It`s not my fault. Gotta go before it really gets out of
1994-02-04 15:23Lazlo Nibble> Firstly: Although the maximum range of human hearing is indeed 20kHz, > Ted Shab is righ
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Lazlo Nibble
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Fri, 4 Feb 1994 08:23:25 -0700 (MST)
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quoted 4 lines Firstly: Although the maximum range of human hearing is indeed 20kHz,> Firstly: Although the maximum range of human hearing is indeed 20kHz, > Ted Shab is right in saying that the brain responds differently to > digital sound than to analogue. This is because we can actually sense > high-pitched sounds although we cannot consciously hear them...
True enough, but your turntable isn't any more likely to be reproducing those sounds accurately than your CD player is. Certainly vinyl pressing standards aren't high enough to assure quality reproduction of frequencies outside of the usual human hearing range.
quoted 3 lines It is possible at the moment to get better quality from vinyl than it is> It is possible at the moment to get better quality from vinyl than it is > from CD using a laser stylus. True, this is expensive, but so is all > embryonic technology. If work was done on it, the price would come down.
Ditto for improving CD technology. So what? Why should we bother?
quoted 2 lines Maybe we are less digital-mad here than you are in the US because we can> Maybe we are less digital-mad here than you are in the US because we can > still get vinyl in big stores like Tower and HMV and Virgin.
I don't think it's a matter of being digital-mad, I think it's a matter of accepting the fact that digital media are, in the minds of most people (myself included), more than up to the task of delivering sound at the consumer level, and that many people (myself included) are happy to avoid the hassles of dealing with vinyl for casual listening. -- Lazlo (lazlo@unm.edu)
1994-02-05 13:05JOHAN BURMAN ELD92> Secondly: The point about a lot of records being produced using digital > effects units
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quoted 7 lines Secondly: The point about a lot of records being produced using digital> Secondly: The point about a lot of records being produced using digital > effects units is valid, but what I am saying is that if analogue technology > had been advancing over the last 15 years or so then there would be decent > analogue effects units. This would help sustain analogue formats, but > unfortunately analogue technology has not been improved because the > multi-national corporations who control the formats have been busy inventing > new digital formats to wow the consumers.
Analogue F/X-units? What a sight... "Brand New! The Alesis Midiverb III! Buy now! Modified tape-delay that will last for atleast a month in the ordinary studio! New improved (but still not very real- sounding) spring reverb! Probably bigger than your car! Buy now!!!! Only $9999!" ... Well... I'd still prefer my good old SE50... Digital=Virtual=Real ----------------------------------------------------- - Johan Burman, eldjbu@tt.luth.se - - woom@ludd.luth.se - - - - woom uses akai equipment... - -----------------------------------------------------