"Rob" wrote


OK. I'm *fairly* sure I can hear a difference between LP-CD recordings and
LP-original. Not absolutely sure mind, no rigorous test, just mild and
recreational observation. Then I'm told there can't be any difference. The
reasoning, I gather, is based on something called "Virtual Reality"
methodology, which involves double-blind testing amongst other things. And
I asked what that was all about in an admittedly precise way. Nothing to
do with solipsism - at least from my end.



No idea what that's all about, but I would say the one good use of a CDR is
to make a pretty close (depending on the equipment used) copy of an LP for
various purposes, but it's no use comparing the two - they fulfil a similar
purpose in vastly different ways, in my book....

Same with MP3s - why bother with CDs when it's pretty much impossible to
tell the difference between a CD and, say, a 256K MP3...???