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Keith G wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Keith G wrote:
One day Joe Ordinaire will wake up to the fact that 'digital' has done
him no real favours - especially when it comes to music.

That comment simply says you have no grasp of the issues.


And yours that you don't see the bigger picture - i.e. past 'plentiful,
cheap crap' which has no real value or long-lasting appeal.

Don't get what you mean. Although it's certainly true a cheap and cheerful
music centre with a CD will knock spots off a valve Dansette...



Digital recording made a huge difference to vinyl - for a start. Ended
the need for direct cut recordings where the very best results were
required.


Like in photography these days, you can 'Photoshop' any crap into some
semblance of respectability?

Eh?

See: "But the gain in sound quality was considered worth the trouble.
(As typical commercial Lp releases were cut from fourth-generation
analog tape copies, the improvement in sound offered by eliminating all
those layers of tape and electronics was not illusory.)"

he

http://www.auldworks.com/AESDD/dd1.htm

If that's an extract from the URL you've given it's not worth even
glancing at.




You seem to think analogue means perfection.


No, but I certainly think good analogue beats digital in anything which
interacts with the human senses.


Perhaps you don't remember
just how poor the average cassette recording was.


No, not really - I never got into them and what I did hear was only on a
car radio/cassette or the kids' cheapo portable cassette decks.

NP. Senor Coconut And His Orchestra 'Behind The Mask' at 45rpm -
********y 'disco' music really, but *stunning* sound quality! :-)

Wonder what you're on tonight?

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