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User Details - GrizzledGeezer
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March 19, 2007
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There are better things to do with my time, such as doing work that needs to be done, or sitting and listening to music. Besides, I don't know any young'uns that are into serious music. ... more | |
March 19, 2007
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The longer reverb time of an auditorium, combined with the inferior quality of most theater speakers, would tend to hide problems with the sound. Knowing how to listen, and what to listen for, are largely learned skills that young people lack. One can have no response above 10kHz, yet be a better judge of reproduction than someone 30 or 40 years ... more | |
March 19, 2007
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What's even worse is the claim -- from both record companies and reviewers -- that compressed formats are equal in sound quality to RBCD. This seems to be based on the reasoning that "if it's digital, it must be perfect", regardless of the bit rate. A good example of the error of this thinking is Dolby Digital (for films). It has a persistently ... more | |
March 18, 2007
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I agree that we've gotten a bit off-topic, but it wasn't wholly my fault. My original point was that, in order to promote a new product or service, you need to give the potential customer something they don't currently have -- perhaps even something they don't yet know they want. (Instant photography is an excellent example.) In the case of SACDs ... more | |
March 14, 2007
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raffells' writing verges on the incoherent -- and sometimes crosses over -- what does "none Decca non tree type recordings are less than the best?" mean? If you're familiar with recording history, you know that EMI adopted SQ encoding for single-inventory quadraphonic LPs. I don't know the total number of surround recordings they made, but it must ... more |
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