While I'm getting up the bottle to re-visit my long neglected soldering skills, I thought I'd chuck a couple of musings in.
To be honest I still find the ability of modern electronics to turn a collection of discrete 0's & 1's into a convincing complex analogue musical system to be a technological miracle. I wasn't impressed by the very early CD's, particularly on classical music since the strings sounded harsh compared to my LP12 deck with a Koetsu Rosewood Signature in the end of the Ittok arm. However more recent CD's sound fine, so I think the problem was the recording engineers getting used to the very different challenges of getting good digital recordings rather than the equally difficult but familiar techniques necessary to create good-sounding LP's. I've still got my deck, arm & cartridge and I shall connect it up to the Mytek in due course (it has a built-in MC/MM phono preamp) just for old time's sake. My Koetsu is probably worth a small fortune now! There are of course a considerable number of audiophools who still prefer vinyl: Sir Elton John himself expressed that opinion only a couple of weeks ago. Incidentally, I hope he's convalescing well after his 2 days in intensive care after catching a nasty bacterial bug in South America last week... There are also a significant number of professional photographers who still prefer photographic film (which is of course analogue) to modern digital cameras, depending of course upon the genre of photography they specialise in. In fact many of the greatest photographic images of the 20th century were taken with very basic camera gear. I'm not a good enough photographer to have a worthwhile opinion, but I do know that the photographer's first concern should be where he's standing, closely followed by pointing the camera in the right direction and pressing the shutter at the right moment. I have a couple of DSLR's with 12.3MP sensors which are quite sufficient for A3 prints IF you frame the picture correctly in the first place. It seems to me that more recent cameras with massive sensors (aside from landscape photography where resolution does matter) only benefit people who frame their shots incorrectly and then have to crop their image drastically to retrieve a passable image. You'll never get a great picture this way though, because you'll have baffled the autofocus and the exposure settings... Returning to audio now, you can undoubtedly enhance your listening experience by closing your eyes, or better still turning the lights out. I need a flashlight to hand in the latter instance because I have a black cat who doesn't understand that I can't see in the dark like she can! My point is that human brains are very complex organs (analogue again!) and have the ability to tune in to a given sense, especially in the absence of other distractions. I don't think that we know everything that there is to find out about the process of listening to music. Just a couple of pennyworth! Dave :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
