ralphpnj;690007 Wrote: > First I'm honored that one of my many endless rants helped to inspire > this thread. Second perhaps we should get going over in the music > section on the best covers of Bob Dylan songs. The new "Chimes of > Freedom" collection gets a high vote just on volume alone. > > > > I'm beginning to think that it is the marketing departments of several > manufactures behind all this nonsense. There two factors in play here. > First there the shrinking CD player market as more and more people move > to computer based audio front ends. And then there is the new, and as > yet untapped, market of providing an interface between the > computer/digital part and the stereo/analog part. Plus there is also > the high end "certified" computer market, we just haven't gotten to > that part yet. > > The new front end is quickly becoming some type of computer and in > extreme cases even involves a $300 piece of plastic! I'm referring to > the Touch of course. Just remember that little piece of plastic scares > the hell out of the high end audio world so they need to tear it down. > In addition they are building up some new myths help sell their $$$$$ > version of the Touch. > > The Touch can handle up to 24 bit/96 kHz so therefore make 32bit/192kHz > the new high end high resolution standard. The Touch doesn't output USB > so make asynchronous USB the new high end digital connection standard. > > So the manufactures push these new standards and the high end magazines > follow along like good little sheep. As their reward they get more > advertising and special treatment from the manufacturers. The well > heeled audiophile gets to all kinds of new toys to play with. Everyone > wins! > > > > > Excellent analogy. > > > > I don't quite agree since I've heard it said by several musicians over > the years that they sometimes wish that they could unlearn their > musical training so that they could experience just the music without > knowing all of the technical details behind it. In other words, hearing > the repeated motif in a symphony as a melody instead of as a series of > notes offset by one octave from the main motif. In any event your > viewpoint is quite valid as well. This didn't quite come out as I intended... I didn't mean the musical elements such as melody, orchestration etc... I meant the sound/timbre of the performance. Anyone can appreciate both aspects... But making judgements Bout the accuracy of the sound reproduction requires more experience than just listening to lots of stuff.. I think you need some real hands on experience creating / capturing sounds and THEN listening to them. I'm only talking about accuracy/fidelity here, not anything else... Nothing to do with enjoyment or pleasure.
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